Kerrie Noor

Does true love overcome age and race? When Neff fell for Tenzam she hoped so until she met his sister.Neff, a dramatic woman in her early sixties thought sex was but a distant memory until she met Tenzam. She works for him in an Indian takeaway and despite him lighting her fire more times than she's served popadoms, she struggles to trust him. Neff pictures Tenzam and her together, happily running a cat sanctuary or a cafe, living as other couple friends do.Tenzam, a Bangladeshi sees love differently.Will Neff and Tenzam be able to meet somewhere in the middle or will Neff return to sleeping with just her cat for company?The Other Side Of Menopause is the sixth book in the Bellydancing and Beyond series. If you like real-life sagas that make you laugh, then you will love Kerrie Noor's wonderfully funny Bellydancing and Beyond series.

Shell-shocked from a night of everlasting labour, Sheryl cannot muster a "coo" let alone feel anything. Will she find her maternal mojo again?Sheryl and Steven have always longed for a baby. But nine months of yoga doesn't guarantee a smooth birth, and Sheryl returns home with the maternal feelings of a clay brick.Steven tries to reassure her, but living next door to a mother as critical as a gymnastics judge has squashed Sheryl's confidence. She can't even get up in the morning, let alone decide on a name for her daughter.Steven finds a home, miles from anywhere, and persuades Sheryl it's for the best. However, a modern kitchen doesn't take away the guilt Sheryl feels for ripping her daughter away from her grandmother as ruthlessly as a wax job.Sheryl retreats into the lost teenager of her past until, that is, her mother needs her help.Will helping her mother rekindle Sheryl's maternal instincts or squash her like yesterday's tomato? Three Angry Women And A Baby is the fourth book in the Bellydancing and Beyond series. If you like real-life sagas that make you laugh, then you will love Kerrie Noor's wonderfully funny Bellydancing and Beyond series.

Diverse, satirical and deliciously moreish, this comical collection of short stories by Scotland's favorite author Kerrie Noor include: A Dress For A QueenLizzie loves to perform daring tricks in strange places- the only trouble is -her day job gets in the way.The Story That Got AwayDeidre works alongside Rodney an editor, who turns up his nose at every story she writes. Until she comes across photos of his mother's past life.The Lady In The BoxPete thought he knew everything there was to know about yoga until he meets the Lady in the box.Boudicca And MavisThe tail of a dancer waiting for a chance, she wants attention, she wants adoration but what she gets is a different story.

Mavis and Lumpy are getting married. It is to be a small affair with a hot and spicy theme, a few close friends, and a celebrant on Skype. "We want no fuss," said Mavis. "Just lots of food, great photos, and belly-dancing."However...Mavis's idea of hot and spicy is not Lumpy's, and Lumpy's idea of great photos is definitely not Mavis's. Mavis and Lumpy find there is more to getting married than organizing the dips. And as their relationship spirals out of control Mavis loses her mother and must come to terms with a past she would rather forget.With a funeral befitting a sitcom, sibling rivalry on a par with a Shakespearean tragedy and a dying mother's impossible wish; Mavis and Lumpy relationship crumbles like a burnt chapatti.And it is up to Nefertiti to make "things" right...so she thinks.

Nefertiti belly dancer extraordinaire has lost her mojo and her life is slowly sinking into the sunset. At one time Nefertiti was a great dancer, now she runs belly dancing classes in a small Scottish town and her numbers are dwindling. Zumba has arrived and Nefertiti can't compete. Nefertiti has fought and won line dancing; tap dancing even salsa classes; but Zumba has stormed into Lochgilphead and taken all but three of her pupils. Disappointed, Nefertiti takes to Zen yoga by the hydrangeas and annoying Rodger her partner and 'rock'. She chooses to fight on and expects her 'rock' to follow; but Rodger has other plans. Rodger has turned into an 'artistic recluse' and no matter how many salutations Nefertiti performs he will never notice. Nefertiti could shimmy while skidding on black ice and wearing nothing but a toothpick and Rodger wouldn't notice. He is too busy in his shed and Nefertiti is desperate to find out why.

Sheryl has seen better days; one time she had a career, a partner, a nice flat and a social life. At the wrong side of thirty-five she losses it all and has to start again, not alone but under the watchful eye of her wheelchair bound mother, her sister and various friends who have known her since she was in nappies.How does she cope?With a newly discovered passion for large wrestlers and a belly dancing teacher called Nefertiti, Sheryl sets out to chase her fantasies, and finds it in the least likely place.Sheryl's last Stand is the first in a series of stories set in Scotland about a group of women who, at one time or another, learnt to belly dance from the great Nefertiti herself.