Imprint
- Hodder & Stoughton
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Romance
A light-hearted, sparkling novel set in a Yorkshire Dales radio station.
Rose Shawe has a morning programme on BBC Radio Ridings. She also has a great job, a delightful house, a teeming diary, a lovely daughter, a clever lover, and a well-concealed past. Once there was a cabaret artist called Rita Bagshawe who Rose used to know. Not a stripper. Just a singer with a few dodgy friends who enhanced her finale by shedding a few garments. Unfortunately she'd once tossed her garter at a blushing Oxford undergraduate called Thomas Wilkes.
Unfortunately, because sixteen years on, Tom Wilkes is due to arrive in the Yorkshire town where Rose has so beautifully constructed her life - and so carefully buried her past.
Praise for Balancing on Air
-
BALANCING ON AIR' is Kate Fenton on sparkling form . . . A funny and highly engaging novel - Woman's Journal
-
Kate Fenton writes romantic comedy spiced with intrigue and farce which zings along - Daily Telegraph
-
Kate Fenton's forte is sharp, contemporary comedy . . . Rose's predicament is explored with unflagging energy and gusto, and is highly entertaining - Mail on Sunday
-
Frenetic, over-the-top and, if you can stand the pace, a thoroughly entertaining novel - Independent
Kate Fenton
Kate Fenton was born in Oldham, brought up in Cheshire and read PPE at St Hilda's College, Oxford. A former features and documentary producer for BBC Radio 4, she lives in the North York Moors near Whitby with her husband, Ed Selby, a GP. She has written radio drama and journalism as well as seven novels, one of which, Lions and Liquorice, was serialised on Woman's Hour.
Find a book you’ll love, get our Word Up newsletter
.png?auto=compress&w=150&h=60&fit=crop&fm=jpg)
.png?auto=compress&w=150&h=60&fit=crop&fm=jpg)
Hachette Australia acknowledges and pays our respects to the past, present and future Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Our head office is located on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.
