‘Our attraction was like a LIGHTNING BOLT’

Romance with an old friend took Jill Mansell by surprise, and 32 years on she’s still wondering how on earth they got together…

Will you just look at the two of us in this photo above, taken over 30 years ago? This is Cino and me when we were in our  late twenties, wearing embarrassing clothes and knocking back the Liebfraumilch with friends at a charity ball held in Clifton College in Bristol. At the risk of sounding completely ancient, the entertainers were Acker Bilk, and ventriloquist Roger De Courcey with Nookie Bear… let’s face it, as a romantic novelist, I’ve probably spent more time than most people contemplating the vagaries of love. and considering what a huge fan I am of the idea of love at first sight, it’s almost a shame this wasn’t remotely the way it happened for us. Cino and I had known each other for many years, purely…

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Woman & Home (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2019

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