Spotlight & Giveaway: IF I WERE YOU by Cesca Major

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Cesca Major to HJ!

Hi Cesca and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, IF I WERE YOU!

Hello – it’s so lovely to chat to you!
 

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

It’s a big body swapping love story set over one chaotic wedding weekend. Amy and Flynn are about to discover what it feels like to walk a mile in the other’s shoes..! Think Freaky Friday – boyfriend and girlfriend edition!
 

Please share your favorite line(s) or quote from this book:

Any scene with Reggie the dog who immediately realises something very shifty is going on..!

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

• Flynn is one of my son’s good friends and I stole his name for this book. Worryingly he keeps asking to read it with his mum. He is 8.
• It is set at a very swanky wedding venue which is so EXTRA it has flamingos and I did actually find a venue in the UK that does have flamingos. I need to visit.
• The first part of this book is set in my favourite city in England – Bristol. Amy’s flat looks out over Clifton Suspension Bridge – a famous Bristolian landmark.
• I never want to swap bodies with my partner after writing this book. It sounds way too stressful. And disgusting.

What first attracts your Hero to the Heroine and vice versa?

Flynn is hooked with Amy’s forthright manner and care of others. Amy is intrigued by Flynn’s confidence and cheek.

Did any scene have you blushing, crying or laughing while writing it? And Why?

I think of the mad pavilion proposal fight scene often. The utter carnage that scene creates always makes me chuckle.

Readers should read this book….

To really get a feel for what it might be like to get into your partner’s head and discover ALL the home truths. And hopefully laugh.

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have in the works?

More magical love stories under my own name and a horror set on a remote island in Scotland under a pseudonym. I love to move from dark to light.
 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

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Excerpt from IF I WERE YOU:

I’m about to reach a hand out to stop her and ask
her name when she halts abruptly at our table. She is
less than a couple of feet away. My chest judders.
Then she points at the prostrate stag in the booth.
‘Is he alright?’ She has a confident voice, loud even
over the music, and an accent I can’t immediately place.
My mouth is still open.
‘Seriously?’ She looks round at us, cocking an eyebrow.
The others gape at her in different stages of drunkenness.
‘Yeah,’ one of the lads says before slumping backwards,
one arm draped over the inert body.
‘Oh my god, you’ll suffocate him.’
She has big Hermione Granger Energy and is even
hotter now that she’s close up. I seem to have lost the
ability to do anything other than look at her. My stomach
disappears. Can I ask her out? Who’s she with? How
have I never bumped into her in Bristol before?
Her mouth is still moving and I realize she is directing
her words at me. ‘Seriously, is he OK? Why are you all
just drinking around him? Does he need to go to
hospital?’
She scoots across me to check on him and I feel simul-
taneously bad it didn’t occur to me to do the same, and
also can’t help noticing she smells of oranges which
makes my head spin even more.
The stag groans as she places a hand on his head and
her eyes soften as she asks him if he’s alright.
He starts to sit up and, satisfied he isn’t a corpse, she
steps back and gives the whole table of men a wither-
ing look.
‘Take better care of him,’ she says.
I start nodding furiously.
She walks off.
Someone sniggers and Eddie rolls his eyes and mutters,
‘Nutter.’
I don’t say ‘she’s not’, I don’t want to rile him up, and
I also feel like I’ve been whacked in the head. It’s not
just the five or six beers (and shots) I’ve drunk. I’ve never
met anyone with such charisma. I wonder what she does
for a living. The youngest CEO of a FTSE 500 company,
a major in the Army, the Prime Minister? Nothing would
surprise me.
I watch her weave her way across the bar and perch
on a stool.
Over people’s heads I see her settle at a high table. She
momentarily stares at a girl on the small stage holding a
microphone singing a wobbly rendition of ‘Man! I Feel
like a Woman!’. There’s a guy with her, neck tattoo and
a top with ripped off sleeves like he’s just wrestled a bear
or something. I hope for my sake he’s her brother, because
what I’m about to do next feels brave.
I just know I can’t leave this place without trying.
I head straight to the bar to ask for paper and a pen.
It seems to take them forever to find one and I curse,
craning my neck to check she is still there.
‘Thanks for that,’ I say breathlessly, standing in front
of her table.
Her vague smile wobbles as she tries to place me and
then a line appears between her eyebrows.
‘That was kind of you,’ I say. ‘Just now. With our
friend. A couple of the guys are taking him back to the
hotel.’
She nods non-committally and my heart sinks as she
returns her attention to the man opposite her. I don’t
think he’s her brother. He looks too annoyed with me
to be her brother.
I want to stay, want to know her.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
 
 

Book Info:

Amy and Flynn have been dating for two years. And they love each other. Don’t they?

Only Amy can’t read Flynn’s mind and Flynn can’t read Amy’s. Little do they know this weekend is make or break.

Amy’s nervous older sister is getting married at the world’s swankiest wedding venue in rural Devon and is relying on her younger sister to be the perfect Chief Bridesmaid. Frustrations on the way to the wedding escalate until both Amy and Flynn are shouting at each other in a country lane during a thunderstorm. Why can’t they see things from the other’s point of view? When lightning strikes, Flynn and Amy are thrown to the ground, and when they stand back up they realize—they’ve switched bodies.

Forced to attend the glamorous wedding weekend as each other is surely an impossible task. With spa mornings, exes, flash mob rehearsals, speeches and more, getting through this swap will test their relationship to breaking point. And when they each discover big secrets in the other’s past—it seems that switching bodies could be the least of their problems. Even if they do manage to swap back—can their relationship survive?
 
 

Meet the Author:

Cesca Major writes suspenseful books inspired by strange true stories. Cesca worked in television and teaching before writing full time. Alongside her thrillers she writes big love stories as Cesca Major and rom coms under the pseudonym Rosie Blake. She teaches creative writing and vlogs writing tips over on her website, www.CescaMajor.com. Cesca lives in Berkshire with her husband, son, and twin daughters. She can be found on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram and enjoys connecting with readers.
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