Who is Andrew Acre? What is Second Chances about?
The background to Second Chances
Second Chances, a royal romance, is Andrew's first novel. He has retired from a successful career in marketing with British, American and French companies to live in Northumberland, a wild and beautiful county at the very north of England.
Andrew has always been inspired by books that use a fictional approach to highlight real issues. He quotes as examples almost anything by Dickens, Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks and more recently Of Human Folly, by Peter Bromley. An honorary mention is also due, he says, to Jane Austen. In writing Mansfield Park she knew that she would alienate many of her slave-owning readers, but proceeded anyway, and faced near-ruin.
A royal revolution
In 2013 there was a change in UK law whereby the heir to the throne was based on the age, not the sex of the monarch's offspring. As a result, had the the oldest child in line been female, this would have meant the first female heir in 1000 years in preference to a male sibling. How would the first male in line felt about that? A fascinating basis for a novel.
The storyline
Princess Caroline does not know who to trust. Her brother has managed to push her out of the limelight, using blackmail over a serious error of judgement on her part. In order to set up her new charity Second Chances, she has to have help from someone from the outside, whom she will have to trust absolutely. To his amazement Paul, an MBA student is approached by the Vice Chancellor, and asked to take on the mission that changes his whole life, and that of the nation.
Second Chances:
Publisher: Olympia Publishers
ISBN: 978-1-83543-675-2
265 Pages , Softback
