Dear Reader
I really enjoyed writing Penny and Jasmineâs stories which make up my SECRETS ON THE EMERGENCY WING duet. Even though they are sisters they are very different and that is what made them so real to me. I loved that, even though they had the same parents and shared the same pasts, because of their unique personalities they looked at things differently.
Penny and Jasmine donât look alike; they donât even get on. No-one could even guess that they are sistersâthey really are two different sides of the same coin. Yet, for all their differences, there are similarities and I had a lot of fun with a little secret of Pennyâs that you shanât find out till near the end of the second book.
I really would love to know which sister ends up being your favourite? Except, as my mother tells me, youâre not allowed to have favourites â¦
You may yet be surprised
Happy reading!
Carol
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SECRETS ON THE EMERGENCY WING
Life and loveâbehind the doors of an Australian ER
The SECRETS ON THE EMERGENCY WING duet is also available in eBook format from www.millsandboon.co.uk
CAROL MARINELLI recently filled in a form where she was asked for her job title and was thrilled, after all these years, to be able to put down her answer as âwriterâ. Then it asked what Carol did for relaxation. After chewing her pen for a moment, Carol put down the truthââwritingâ. The third question askedââWhat are your hobbies?â Well, not wanting to look obsessed or, worse still, boring, she crossed the fingers on her free hand and answered âswimming and tennisâ. But, given that the chlorine in the pool does terrible things to her highlights, and the closest sheâs got to a tennis racket in the last couple of years is watching the Australian Open, Iâm sure you can guess the real answer!
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These books are also available in eBook formatfrom www.millsandboon.co.uk
JUST CONCENTRATE ON WORK.
Jed said it over and over as he ran along the damp beach.
He ran daily, or tried to, depending on work commitments, but as much as he could Jed factored running into his dayâit served as both his exercise and his relaxation, helped him to focus and to clear his head.
Just concentrate on work, he repeated, because after the last two hellish years he really did need to do just that.
Jed looked along the bay. The morning was a hazy one and he couldnât make out the Melbourne skyline in the distance. Not for the first time he questioned whether he had been right to take the position at the Peninsula Hospital or if he should have gone for a more prestigious city one.
Jed loved nothing more than a big city hospitalâhe had worked and trained at a large teaching hospital in Sydney and had assumed, when he had applied for jobs in Melbourne, that the city was where he would end up, yet the interview at Peninsula Hospital that he had thought would be a more a cursory one had seen him change his mind.
It wasnât a teaching hospital but it was certainly a busy oneâit served as a major trauma centre and had an NICU and ICU and Jed had liked the atmosphere at Peninsula, as well as the proximity to the beach. Perhaps the deciding factor, though, had been that he had also been told, confidentially, that one of the consultants was retiring and a position would be opening up in the not-too-distant future. His career had been building up to an emergency consultant position and, his disaster of a personal life aside, it was where he was ready to be. When Jed had handed in his notice six months ago an offer had been made and heâd been asked to reconsider leaving, but Jed had known then that he had to get away, that he had to start again.
But with new rules in place this time.
Jed missed not just Sydney and the hospital he had trained and worked at but his family and friendsâit had been the first birthday of Luke, his newest nephew, yesterday, another thing he hadnât been able to get to, another family gathering he had missed, when before, even if he hadnât been able to get there on the day, heâd have dropped by over the weekend.
A phone call to a one-year-old wasnât exactly the same.
But the decision to move well away had surely been the right one.
Still he questioned it, still he wondered if he had overreacted and should have just stayed in Sydney and hoped it would work out, assumed it was all sorted.