first novel, about a love story between 60-somethings, has slowly climbed to the top of the chart Amazon bestseller

Hilary Boyd, a grandmother of 62, has been writing novels and, as she says, "is categorically rejected" for the last 20 years. "I can not even think, "she said, examining many years of failure and abandonment." Fiction has always been my dream, "he added," but 60 years who had lost heart -. Despite being repeatedly spoke of Mary Wesley [who published her first novel after 70] " In 2011, however, his luck seemed to change. Independent Quercus imprint published his novel,

Thursday in the park , a romantic story of a grandmother 60-something, Jeanie, who meets the man of her dreams Ray by fluctuations in the park while she takes care of her grandchildren. Jeanie Boyd struggle with the reality of a husband who is removed from its bed and the temptation to life with a new partner. Your message: vigorous young grandmothers behave impulsively. They face the same agonizing decisions - should I go or not? -. Like the rest of us

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Thursday in the park was followed by disappointment. There was a good review in the

Daily Mail , which Boyd said to be "wise as Trollope on the observation of family life, and better than jokes Trollope ". Otherwise, Boyd said, "nothing happened." The first edition of his first published novel sold fewer than 1,000 copies. far, so normal. Most authors in Britain has never seriously ill sell and earn less than employee purchase M & S. A year later, in August 2012, when the novel publishers reprinted in mass market edition, or even change the marketing and recycling of the same tree Heartshaped on the cover. At the same time launched Quercus

Thursday in the park as an e-book. Nobody pays attention to the audience for the big lighted Kindle.

Boyd, like many aspiring writers have evolved commissions and documentary journalism. For years, she wrote a Mind Body Spirit column Daily Express and books on health issues such as parental depression stage, and pregnancy. She was tired familiar with the restrictions of the book. What happened next, however, was something new: a parable of the e-book revolution

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), is struggling with something else: how to explain his sudden success. "I have no idea who buys. I have no idea. All I can say is that sex in the park sex beats in the basement. "Iain Millar, a spokesman for the publisher, who seemed equally puzzled." This is the mouth ear, "he said, which explains nothing.
Hilary Boyd believes he has stumbled upon a new audience. "Older people fall in love and have passionate relationships is not a story that has already been explained before, but I doubt that the market is there." This "gray market" of retiring baby boomers success which contributed to the success of films such as the United Kingdom Best Exotic Marigold The