(Published by Robert Hale Ltd)
(Severn House Publishers)
'A delicious and funny novel of love, jealousy and family ties from this well-loved author'
Fergal broke her heart - James helped mend it.
Now they've bought a cottage in the country. The next step - kids and a lifetime of domestic bliss. Well that's the plan anyway. And even if James has a slight tendency to view the village pub as a second home, their relationship is still in pretty good shape after seven years of marriage. So why is marriage to Mr Right making her long for Mr Wrong?
`Trisha Ashley writes with remarkable wit and originality and has created a deliciously acerbic heroine' KATIE FFORDE
And even if she doesn't want to follow her literary namesake over the nearest cliff-top, she has the urge to do something dramatic before it's too late. Trouble is, as an adventurous woman of a certain age, Sappho's pretty much been there, done that, got the T-shirt. In fact the only thing she hasn't tried is motherhood. And with sexy potter Nye on hand as a potential daddy - or at least donor - is it time for her to consider the biggest jump of all? It's either that or buy a cat....
'Got up at the crack of dawn to kill the Fatted Breakfast only to discover that aliens had stolen my husband during the night and substituted something incomprehensibly vile in his place...'
Charlotte - Charlie - Rhymer's husband wants a divorce. Charlie isn't sure what she wants, but after the incident with the frying pan even she has to concede that their differences may be irreconcilable after all.
Returning home to her native Yorkshire and the bosom of her family seems like a good idea at the time. Even if Charlie's father has never quite forgiven Charlie or her siblings (Anne, Emily and Branwell) for failing to live up to their more literary namesakes. And now Charlie's got a failed marriage behind her. Still, she's determined to bounce back from disaster and strike a blow for deserted older wives everywhere. But then she meets brooding actor Mace North, and realises that when it comes to dating for the over 40s, female solidarity be damned - it's every woman for herself.
`Trisha Ashley`s romp... makes for enjoyable reading' The Times
`One of the best writers around' KATIE FFORDE
`Fresh and funny' Woman's Own
Max, Cassandra Leigh's long-term partner, is handsome, charismatic, sophisticated - and married. Now he's abandoned Cass for a year and taken his wife off to America, leaving her all alone in her damp little cottage. Cass always dreamed that one day she and Max would be married, but now she is waking up to reality like an elderly Sleeping Beauty and realising that not only is the prince missing, there isn't even a half-way decent frog in the offing. Meanwhile, Jason, one of her oldest friends, has developed a worrying crush on her and she's had an encounter of a closer kind than she bargained for with Dante Chase, the new owner of the U.K's most ghost-infested manor house, a man even more haunted by his past than Cass is by hers. Now, the vicar wants to sell Cass off to the highest bidder at the local charity slave auction, and Max, Jason and Dante are each determined to bid for her. And somehow Cass knows that they're all after more than a little light dusting...
Living in the idyllic Welsh village of St Ceridwen's Well, with handsome husband, Mal, and loving daughter, Rosie, forty-something Fran March has reason to be happy with her lot. She has a successful career as a freelance illustrator and a bevy of close female friends.
Then Rosie - the product of a mad but never forgotten one-night stand - starts asking awkward questions about her 'real' father. And by coincidence Fran and her friends Nia and Carrie find themselves watching a gardening programme presented by the devastatingly handsome - and disconcertingly familiar - Gabriel Weston.
All at once Fran's peaceful rural existence is turned upside down - and Pandora's Box is well and truly open ...
