One Apple Tasted

By Josa Keyes

Meet Dora Jerusalem, features assistant to the assistant features editor at Modern Woman, a fashionable glossy staffed by glamorous girls and clever boys. Catapulted into 1980s London and desperate to succeed, Dora is drawn into a whirl of launches and parties where she meets Guy Boleyn, louche and gorgeous - but from a very different world.

Follow the ever-optimistic Dora as she navigates her way through a maze of jealous frenemies, family secrets, weddings that don't exactly go to plan and a heritage of passion and drama - trying to reach that elusive fairytale ending.

Kicking off in 1980s London, and moving between 1950s Home Counties and WWII, by way of a breathtaking trip to Himalayan India, Josa Young perfectly captures the tone of each era, to paint a touchingly accurate portrait of a young woman struggling towards happiness.

Brilliantly characterised, engaging and witty, One Apple Tasted is part family saga, part romance, part coming-of-age tale, all adding up to the perfect cheering holiday read.