Cordelia Tanner has a fabulous life of fun, frolics, and footwear with her adorable twin brother Rex and their best friend, the dazzling Elodie l'Archambeau. When Cordelia and Rex invent Footloose, an ingenious holographic technology that gives the illusion of a person being shod in fantastical shoe designs when underneath they have on their comfy slippers it leads to a meltdown in the real shoe industry and so the bombastic, vengeful footwear mogul Richard Nailer tries to destroy the culprits. Will the dastardly Nailer succeed in his scheming or will Cordelia triumph?
Fortunately, Cordelia can periodically escape all the shenanigans because of an extraordinary extra-sensory ability she calls psychomatricks which permits her to witness episodes in a person's life by holding a piece of their property - very useful when applied to her collection of shoes once owned by luminaries of history. When she discovers the enigmatic Elodie has the ability too they miraculously enter historic realms for adventures galore.
This is a funny feel good book with a strong female protagonist set in contemporary London, USA, and Europe in a story about a glamorous family, friendship, jollity and a sprinkling of magic leading to a happy ending.
Sole Brethren: If The Shoe Fits is the first in the Sole Brethren series. It is a novel for fans of funny friendship books. Anyone who enjoys imaginative pacy stories with a sense of place and loveable characters in a distinct community will enjoy this book. It has been enjoyed by fans of novelists India Knight, Jilly Cooper, Lewes Carroll, Armistead Maupin, E. F. Benson, Nancy Mitford, and Tom Robbins.
Sole Brethren: If The Shoe Fits was included in Shelf Media's 100 Most Notable Independently Published Books 2023.