Out of the Shadows by Susan Lewis

Author:Susan Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409008996
Publisher: Random House

Chapter Seventeen

IT HARDLY SEEMED possible that the day of departure for Derbyshire was coming around so fast. After a month of almost constant press and publicity, and the kind of build-up worthy of a Canaveral launch, Susannah had finally arrived at the point where she was almost as familiar to the public as she was to herself. Already she was finding it virtually impossible to go anywhere without being recognised, and hardly a day passed that she wasn’t featured in at least one newspaper, magazine or TV chat show.

‘It’s amazing,’ she told Patsy as they strolled arm in arm on Clapham Common the day before she was leaving, ‘half the time I’m pinching myself to make sure it’s real, and the other half I’m convinced it’s all about to come crashing down around me.’

Patsy’s smile was wry. ‘I don’t think that’s going to happen,’ she said confidently.

Susannah suppressed a shiver. ‘In retrospect I’d like to have gone in quietly, just in case of implosion,’ she said, ‘but it’s too late now. The cameras start rolling on Monday, and two weeks after that the public will get to see for themselves what all the fuss has been about. I’m absolutely dreading it, because after this sort of hype expectations are going to be soaring beyond any possibility of satisfaction.’

‘How are the scripts looking?’ Pats asked, amused by a jogger who almost hit a post as he recognised Susannah.

‘My answer to that changes by the minute,’ she confessed, ‘which is nerves, of course. I’m in all of the first six episodes, and I’ve got some great storylines. I haven’t told Alan yet that one of them involves seducing two of the judges at a county show in order to make sure Silver qualifies for Horse of the Year.’

‘At the same time, or individually?’

‘Don’t be shocked, but at the same time. I even toss a coin to decide who goes first.’

‘My God! What kind of woman is she?’

‘Sly, conniving, deadly ambitious and sex-mad. And that’s her shy side.’

Laughing, Patsy said, ‘So not exactly casting to type?’

‘No, she’s definitely nothing like me, which is why she’s going to be so fantastic to play. I can really get my teeth into how scheming and bitchy she is, but she has a few redeeming qualities, well, one anyway, she absolutely adores her horse – which reminds me, I’ve only been approached by Playboy to do a centrefold, on horseback, as Lady Godiva.’

‘Which you had to know was coming. Are they offering a small fortune?’

‘Actually, quite a large one, but I’ve turned it down. It’s not the kind of thing I want to get into.’

‘Does Alan know?’

‘Yes, and needless to say he thoroughly approved of my failure to be tempted by untold riches. However, he was pretty keen to take some risqué shots himself, which we had quite a bit of fun with before he erased them. Now, enough about me. We’ve hardly spoken this last couple of weeks, so I want to hear what’s been happening with you.

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