Very pleasant, easy-going novel about Poppy, whose dull husband is killed in a freak accident involving frozen waste from an airplane. It turns out Phil wasn't all that dull, having amassed a fortune while romancing another woman for four years. All kinds of mild complications ensue, many relat...
In a rural town in England, a woman with 2 young children wishes her judgmental, shaming, controlling, & boring husband would drop dead...and he does! Her joy is obvious to her 4 best friends, if nobody else, but it disappears when she realizes that he's been having an affair for the past 4 years...
Fans of Catherine Alliot's other novels will be pleased to find that they can add another page-turner to their growing libraries. Olivia's Luck is a combination of gentle farce, emotional heartache and some uplifting moments. Olivia (Livvy) recounts the sudden breakdown of her 10-year marriage a...
‘I’ve put her next door!’ I breathed to James as he closed the bedroom door behind us. ‘Well, that’s all right, darling. They’re hardly going to be at it like teenagers, are they? Especially after a ten-hour drive. And, anyway, so what if they are?’ He was beginning to look a bit cross. I knew I ...
‘She’s like some ghastly Carry On character: how hot is your furnace, Pete? Do you ever take your shirt off, Pete?’ she mimicked. ‘I mean, honestly.’ She sank down in a heap at Jennie’s kitchen table. ‘I thought: any minute now she’ll be feeling his biceps!’ Jennie and I exchanged a guilty glance...
“Oh dear, poor you. But you know, he’s right, I’m afraid,” she said to my surprise. “You don’t call a vet out for chickens, certainly not baby chicks. My father used to just wring their necks if they were looking a bit dodgy.” “No!” “They’re not pet...