num_pages: 160
description: Like two ships passing in the night--if one was a narrowboat and the other a luxury yacht.Disgraced private school teacher Giles Rathbourne has been sent home on extended sick-leave and is stuck in a rut of obsessive housework and drinking. His ex may have been a snobbish bastard but without him Giles is adrift rattling around his huge lonely house. When a dreadlocked narrowboaters engine breaks down at the end of his canal-side garden Giles is furious at this invasion of his privacyfor a while.Smutty might not have ever held down a proper job but the fire-dancing free-spirited traveller can recognise an opportunity for mutual benefit when he sees it. Giles extensive gardens are in as desperate need of attention as the upper-class hunk is himself whereas Smutty knows a thing or two about plants and needs a place to moor up.A simple business arrangement between two men who have nothing else in common? It would beif they could keep their hands off each other!
language: English
title: Boats in the Night
publisher: Josephine Myles