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Retirement in the South of France isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. After fifty years of marriage, the only thing Mavis and Jeff agree on is that it’s too late to change.
Enter the maverick and flirtatious Rémy, sent to prove them wrong. When he asks the Toulouse Club for English Pensioners to help oversee clinical trials for a revolutionary happiness drug, little does anyone know he is a World Happiness Organisation (WHO) agent, armed with their files.
But Rémy also faces a dilemma. The new drug is part of a covert scheme to monetise happiness, violating the Organisation’s founding principles, and his boss is about to find out …
About
Born in Manchester, Lou grew up in Wales and now lives in the south of France with her favourite people and cat.
Back in the 90s, a degree in French and German – coupled with some experience of working (but mostly dancing) through the summers in Munich – saw Lou unwittingly fall into a long and enjoyable career in economic development, inward investment, marketing and communications.
For a large part of the week, she still writes for multinationals, on subjects ranging from medical devices to supply chain management. It’s fun, but a couple of years ago a question started to niggle her: what would it be like to write about some of the other – let’s say more quirky – stuff in her head? After a year-long novel writing course, the World Happiness Organisation was born and she hasn’t looked back!
When she’s not writing, Lou loves nothing more than cycling, doing up old houses and – when the opportunity presents itself – hiking up smouldering Icelandic volcanoes.