The Juggle is the story of two people meeting and then losing themselves. It asks the question is a marriage ever big enough for two dreams to come true?
It was only a blip. Just a little mistake. But in the world of television, Dan Whitehead’s little
slip could cost him his television career. His only chance is to swap roles with his wife, Molly, who works part-time behind the scenes at the show. As long as she doesn’t discover what he’s been hiding for so long.
Meanwhile, Molly is more than happy in her hoodie and yoga leggings - not that she ever
does yoga. Then, when she’s offered an exclusive interview on the other side of the world, her life in Cherry Blossom Park is under threat. Why is she the only person to ever be offered this interview? Dan must never know the
truth.
When life takes Molly and Dan deeper into their own worlds, will they ever find a way to be together again?
“This book is full of beauty, humour and kindness. As well as unexpected twists and turns”
— Reader review
Why I wrote this book
Write what you know ‘they’ say. This is especially true when your time budget for research is zero. I work in television. My husband works in television. He works full-time and I work part-time. And yes, one of us did make a similar mistake to Dan but that’s all I’m going to say.
Other than that, the similarity pretty much ends. My husband never wears designer suits (most have rips in them) and I’ve always wanted curly hair. But I wondered what it would be like to make Molly and Dan swap so they see the pressures the other person faces. It’s easy to think isn’t the grass always greener? But is it? And is this just our own way of not facing our own fears ourselves?
I wanted to look at the confidence which can be lost with motherhood and I wanted to look at the worry which comes with fatherhood too. It’s easy to say one side has it better than the other, but Molly and Dan taught me it’s not always as simple as that.
Even though I don’t live in Cherry Blossom Park (sometimes I wish I did), I live in an area in Bristol surrounded by brilliant, hard-working parents. We are lucky to have some of them as our closest friends. I know all everyone wants is to do the best for their children even if all our lives, hopes and dreams come in different shapes and sizes. But away from being parents, it’s fascinating, isn’t it, to know how couples meet? One different job, one break-up that didn’t happen and they’d never know the person they’re spending their lives with now. Boyfriends and girlfriends of past, dreams of old, do they ever really disappear or are they rich parts of our tapestry, making us the people we are now?