About Sole Brethren: If The Shoe Fits by B.A. Summer:
Cordelia Tanner, the world’s leading shoe designer is unable to wear the luxury shoes she creates because of physiological foot problems. This leads her and twin brother Rex to devise Footloose, a technology that beams 3D holograms making it look to everyone else as though the user is wearing fabulous footwear when in reality they are in their comfy slippers. The result is unintended consequences, namely a consumer revolution led by the Foot Freedom Liberation Front with its Free Your Feet campaign, and remarkably quickly people world-wide stop wearing real shoes causing the collapse of shoe manufacturing and associated businesses. The shoe industry fights back, via the Best Foot Forward lobby, funded by mogul Richard ‘Call Me Rich, Because I Am’ Nailer, aka Discount Shoe King, a distinctly unpleasant character. Cordelia and Rex watch with horror at the shenanigans they unwittingly prompted, but fortunately for them they had invented a fictitious front person, Jill Mitchell, as the public owner of Footloose so all the anger is aimed at her.
Cordelia is able to escape temporarily from the hullaballoo because of an extra sensory skill she calls psychomatricks which she uses on her incredible historic shoe collection to create Shoeseum, a unique interactive museum. When she discovers her best friend, the enigmatic French doctor, Elodie l’Archambeau, has the ability too, as long as they do it together, the effects are amplified leading to them being able to communicate in the psychic realm with the original owners of the historical shoes.
Cordelia has a charmed life filled with beauty, culture, fun, and delightful family and friends centred on the London pleasure gardens she owns with her ex-husband, but still close friend, Oscar.
As Cordelia and Rex scramble to save the shoe industry there is a big twist in the tale before people start wearing real shoes again and give happy endings all round except for the dastardly Discount Shoe King who deserves everything coming to him.
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Author Bio:
B.A. Summer is the pen name of British writer Jane Peyton, non-fiction author of ten books about alcoholic drinks, architecture & design, and British traditions.
“Sole Brethren: If The Shoe Fits” is her first novel which she describes as a magical realism romp and she has written the type of book she enjoys reading but finds hard to locate. She’s keen on stories with imaginative, magical elements, lovable colourful characters in a community that has a sense of place and makes her want to live there and be friends with the characters. With Cordelia, Rex, and Elodie, Sole Brethren’s primary characters she has her perfect fictitious friends!