Sol Searching – A Fun-Filled Tale of a Modern Girl’s Move to the Costa del Sol – tells of Keidi Keating’s quest to make friends, meet the man of her dreams and find a job (starting The Sentinella)!

Taken from the chapter entitled Moving Forward

My stomach wouldn’t stop dancing, as I was meeting Mr Money about the world’s longest job vacancy, at last! I was exuding excitement at the thought that my unemployment agony might be over by lunch time, but I desperately tried to retain a cool exterior. I pictured myself as a high profile magazine editor flitting between celebrity interviews, free lunches and designer shops. A chic Londoner living it up in the rich area of the Costa del Sol, with a job others would envy. Wealthy men. Yachts. Ferraris. Wealthy men. Yachts. Ferraris. Wealthy men. Yachts. Ferraris. The words bounced around my head, luring me to a new and pretentious life, like a conveyor belt on a game show, showing what I could win, if my luck was ripe.

I wondered what it would be like to have cash to splash; enough money to buy what I wanted, when I wanted, without having to worry about covering the rent each month. Mr Money told me I had the job in February and I assumed he had asked me to journey all the way to Marbella, to reveal a starting date. Why else?

My Dad drove the hour and a half slog. My head was like a washing machine, churning around at speed, while pondering over all the possibilities of the forthcoming meeting.

We had agreed to meet outside a café, beneath his office. He emerged out of a random door with a folder under his arm. He looked ‘wrong’. His eyes were bloodshot and baggy, his skin was dull and grey. If he was a piece of fruit one would have speculated that he was going off.

“Follow me” he said, leading me up some steps to his office.

There were two rooms overlooking a busy main road. I immediately observed that there was no furniture, no computer desks and no phones. No photocopier, no paper clip chains, no naked women calendars, nor any other tell tale ‘we work from here’ signs. Just one empty office, which clearly needed fitting.

Sol Searching can be purchased online via www.Amazon.co.uk It is also available from The Sentinella stall at the Tuesday farmer’s market, and from Arkwrights in Puente don Manuel.

See Keidi’s Sol Searching blog!