"Funny, warm and beautifully written - I loved it." MILLY JOHNSON
**Can one woman's marriage survive her best friend's divorce? Veronica Henry meets Erica James in this gorgeous summer read.**
Octavia Shelton thought she'd have a different life. One where she travelled the world with an exotic husband and free-spirited children in tow.
Instead she's married to safe, reliable Jonathan, and her life now consists of packed lunches, school runs and mountains of dirty washing. She's not unhappy. It's just that she can barely recognise herself.
So as Octavia watches her best friend's marriage break up, it gets her thinking. What if life could be different? What if she could escape and rediscover the person she used to be? Escape back to the island she visited years ago? And what if the man she used to love was there waiting for her?
A hilarious, straight-talking read for fans of Fiona Neill and Gill Hornby's 'The Hive'.Maia is a cleaner for ladies who lunch. With mops and buckets in tow, she spends her days dashing from house to house cleaning up after them, as they rush from one exhausting Pilates class to the next.But an unusual inheritance catapults her and her children into the very exclusive world of Stirling Hall School - a place where no child can survive without organic apricots and no woman goes a week without a manicure.As Maia and her children, Bronte and Harley, try to settle into their new life, Maia is inadvertently drawn to the one man who can help her family fit in. But is his interest in her purely professional? And will it win her any favours at the school gate?A hilarious, straight-talking read for anyone who's ever despaired at the politics of the school run.
