Gap Year - Helen Chislett
Helen Chislett is an author and journalist who specialises in design related subjects. She began work as a writer on Good Housekeeping magazine aged just nineteen. Since then her work has been published in every UK broadsheet newspaper and numerous lifestyle titles, women's magazines and design publications. She has written over 20 books to date, including ones co-authored with leading names in design such as Kelly Hoppen, Nina Campbell and David Linley. In 2024, she published her first novel 'Gap Year'.
GENRE: Women's fiction
Blurb:
When her daughter, Grace, leaves for a gap year in Paris, Isobel is consumed with regret for her own lost dreams and mourns her pre-motherhood self. Frustration grows into bitterness against her husband, Robert; the bookshop in Rye from which they derive their precarious income; the decline of her ageing parents, and the feeling that life has passed her by. When she meets George – suave and handsome father to Grace’s American friend, Nina – a flicker of her old self is re-ignited.
