What is Getting Away all about?

Getting Away is my first novel and a real labour of love. It is a stand-alone book about escapism (in every sense of the word) and what happens when you end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. So what's it all about? I hear you cry!

In the beginning...

Getting Away begins with Nancy Smart, a 20-something-year-old working in a dead-end job at the local JobCentre, waiting for something to happen to spice up her life. Although she’s aware she’s going nowhere fast in life, she doesn’t know what she wants, she doesn’t have a dream (and you’ve got to have a dream, right ladies and gentlemen?).

Nancy thinks she’s in love with Danny Greenslade, a handsome and charismatic out-of-work musician, whom she has encountered a grand total of twice. She lives with her friend Steph, a flamboyant, jobbing actress with more sass than a Kardashian on heat.

But then everything changes. Whilst giving her parents a lift to the airport, she is inadvertently kidnapped, along with the son of an airline owner and one of the richest men in Britain, Mark Cheriton. Together, both of them are blindfolded, tied and bundled into a van, to be driven to a secret location on an island somewhere in the middle of the Mediterranean Ocean.

After spending time with the kidnappers, Joe, Johnno, Coultan and his wife Rio, Nancy and Mark form a friendship, and Nancy starts to fall for head honcho, Joe, who is, of course, as fit as a butcher’s dog. It is a classic form of Stockholm Syndrome (see previous blog post for more about Stockholm Syndrome). Time passes and Nancy & Mark soon come to realise that these are possibly the worst bunch of criminals in the history of scallywags and ner-do-wells and understand that without their help, the plot will not only fail but their new-found friends will be spending the rest of their days behind bars.

Decision time, what would you do?

The decision has to be made. Should they help the gang with the plot, get the ransom money, lie to the police and risk getting sent to prison themselves? Or should they walk away, leaving the kidnapping crew to their own devices, which will inevitably result in their downfall? Either way, Nancy cannot stay and must leave Joe and the island behind her.

Hmm, what would you do? Would you have the nerve to carry out the crime? It wasn’t your idea, you didn’t concoct the plan, but could you help bring it to fruition? Who is it really hurting anyway?

But what if you got caught? Would it be worth it? You would always be known as a fraud and a criminal. What would your family and your friends think? Could you live with yourself?

You’ll have to buy the book to find out what Nancy and Mark decide to do!!

Available to buy now on Amazon!

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