Ten
years spent trying to forget.
Now
Kyle
returns to his home town following years away to discover Sophie, the girl he
could never have, nursing a broken heart after being dumped by her fiancé.
Then
A
decade before Sophie and Kyle hated each other, she thought he was an arrogant
playboy and he thought she was a spoilt princess. However one night a drunken
kiss changed everything ….
Back
then he was the achingly attractive bad boy that, however much she tried, Sophie
couldn’t resist. Now as Kyle spends the summer attempting to revive Sophie from
her misery, she wonders if the one person she wouldn’t let herself have is the
only one who can save her?
Just Between Us – Hayley Oakes
My Inspiration Behind the
Characters
I have always loved
angst ridden romance ever since the days of ‘My so called life’ and ‘Party of
five’. I love the idea of a romance that is doomed to fail despite how much the
characters are drawn to each other.
I wanted to create a
story where the characters were unable to stay apart but didn’t really like
each other. I also don’t like stories where the end is a foregone conclusion
and so I like the reader to always guess what will happen next.
My inspiration for Kyle
was every bad boy in fiction that I ever read, in my mind he was a lot harsher
than I wrote him but it didn’t translate to paper and he became a tortured good
guy deep down. I wanted him to be a mixture of Jordan Catalano from ‘My so
called life’, Griffin from ‘Party of Five’ and Patrick from ’10 things I hate
about you’. Someone who is adored by people but doesn’t require the adoration,
who is effortlessly cool but doesn’t need the acceptance.
My inspiration for
Sophie was the teenage angst movies that I have enjoyed my whole life. The
torture of feeling like you don’t quite fit in and the hardship of realising
that your parents aren’t perfect. You realise that your mum can love again and
be giddy. You realise that you can get yourself into trouble and don’t have to
ask permission for everything. My own teenage experiences and those of my
friends were drawn on heavily,
Sophie gets a bad rep
in some reviews for being whiny and selfish but really all she is someone who
is too scared to just be herself and accept what she wants. She’s a typical
teenager who worries more about what everyone else thinks rather than just
following her heart.
Hayley Oakes is a wife to a Manchester United fan and a mother
to a three year old daughter both require patience and a sense of humour. She
enjoys reading angst ridden romance and writing stories that she would love to
read. She loves post apocalyptic movies and anything 80’s. This is her second
novel.
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