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|title=Croissants and Jam

|author=Lynda Renham

|publisher=Raucous Publishing

|date=January 2012

|summary=When Annabel Lewis (Bels) boards her flight, she has two days to get to her wedding in Rome. Plenty of time one would think. However, Bels does not take into account a sick passenger that causes a diverted landing; an untimely messy accident with some croissants and jam; and having to travel through France in an old battered Citroen with a man she has only just met. Much to the consternation of her fiancé, Simon, she is now cutting it fine, but this unexpected detour with a very attractive, if somewhat annoying, man also gives her time to think. Does she really want to marry Simon after all?

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Even before Annabel Lewis boards the flight to Rome that will take her to her wedding, she is having doubts. After all, she has only known Simon for seven months and he does tend to be quite controlling and not much fun. So, when a series of unfortunate events causes her to miss her connecting flight, although she is reluctant to admit it, it is a welcome relief. She does still intend to go ahead with the wedding though, so she needs to find away to get across France and into Italy. As there are no flight options, she ends up agreeing to share a car with the man who inadvertently made her miss her flight. As a fashion conscious stylish woman though, she is more than a little perturbed when the car in question ends up as a clapped out old Citroen (affectionately known as the lemon) and when Christian, her travelling companion, stops at a French supermarket so that she can get some clothes to wear. Bels is much more used to designer labels than cheap and functional clothing.