All About Laura - Tapa dura

Mel Ashton is hard-working and responsible. But she is desperate to change her life. Unhappy with both her job and her flat, she is ready for change - in everything but her relationship with the artist David. He, however, likes Mel just the way she is: calm, rational and in control. David's problem is his strange adolescent obsession with women called Laura, particularly an artist's model he met 10 years ago. And when David's friend Joss commissions a portrait of his new wife, the lives of both David and Mel are thrown into chaos when it transpires that Joss' wife is the original Laura with whom the obsession began. This is a love story with elements of the sharp humour of Notting Hill and Four Weddings, and the many who enjoyed Bates' extremely popular Charmed Lives will find this one irresistible.

Everyone has a passion. David's is called Laura. Ten years ago, David, a talented artist, met an artists model called Laura, and an obsession was born. A whole string of Lauras followed. His perfect woman was always a Laura until he met Mel. Mel s sense of responsibility and calm presence provide the perfect antidote to David s unstable intensity. With her, David is finally growing up, and even growing out of his adolescent obsession with women called Laura. But when wealthy Joss Savil commissions a portrait of his new wife, David s relationship with Mel is thrown into crisis. For Joss s wife is the original Laura."