Plump, virginal Janice reluctantly writes romances in the hope of earning enough money to find the man she loved and lost 20 years ago. Unfortunately, her agent is hiding her healthy financial position.
This really is delightful stuff. With Patrick Parker's Progress, Mavis Cheek demonstrates once again that she is one of the wittiest and most enjoyable of writers, with a grasp of modern social comedy that puts many of her peers in the shade. Those who consider their dealings in love and sex to h...
Mavis Cheek writes wonderful women with lots of wit and warmth and wisdom and I must look out for more of her works, because I do enjoy them so much. This novel is about Aunt Margaret and her one chance as of late to have her romantic whims seen to at last, when her niece Sassy who she has raised...