Guilt Trip

A reproachful look from a famine victim sends divorcee Susan Clayfield on a "Guilt Trip" which will lead towards the loss of her job, her health and her home as she struggles to help her various charities, mainly for African victims of famine. Her work has suffered and she has been given three months to improve her appearance and general performance at EPITOME, the Insurance Company she works for. She has been moved from Customer Services to Accounts where she will work under the eccentric Mark Farriday. A bizarre trip to Italy with her new boss brings about a tour of Rome, Sorrento, Pompeii, and Mount Vesuvius. After an accident they are forced to spend a night on the volcano, and Susan realises her feelings have grown towards him. But he is besotted with Sally, a tart with muscular thighs. Back home, Susan's debts have spiralled out of control and her home is now at risk. Can she pull back from the brink to save it?

Patricia Harper lives in the U.K with her husband Tony. She has had many short stories and articles published in British National Newspapers and magazines. Three of her short stories have been broadcast by the B.B.C. They were "Love on the 69 Bus," read by the late Edgar Harrison, who was Dan Archer in the long running British radio serial "The Archers." Then followed "Swansong," read by Richard Pasco of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford On Avon, and after that, "Plain and Fancy," read by Dora Bryan the comedy actress who starred in "Carry on Sergeant," and other movies. All three were produced at Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham by David Shute. She has won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes in various literary competitions, one judged by the novelist Barbra Cartland to be "well written.