A refreshing read about three women who form a fast friendship. They also find that being of a certain age can certainly have it’s advantages in a world where some believe you’re passed your sell by date. Funny, pacy and spot on observation.
Divorced, fifty-plus and a reporter on a small-town newspaper, Carol has just one grumble – the way friends and family will try to fix her up with a Mr Wonderful. No thanks! She’s perfectly content on her own. Then life shifts into the kick-ass mode. Steve, a tyrannical new editor, arrives: her elderly father morphs into a babe magnet: her daughter and granddaughter land on her doorstep, and black hairs sprout from Carol’s chin.
Jenny, Carol’s meek plump housewife friend, is eager to find herself a job, but her husband disapproves. Tina, a glamorous recently-widowed gold-digger, has one major problem – she hates getting older.
When the three women workout together with Max, an erotic personal trainer, all their lives are changed.
Elizabeth Oldfield started writing as a teenager, when she had articles published in magazines and newspapers. Payment was in guineas - which tells you how long ago it was! On marriage, her creative instinct was diverted into the production of a daughter, and a son. Later, when her husband's job took them to live in Singapore, she resumed writing. A chance attempt at romantic fiction proved successful and she went on to write forty genre romances for Harlequin Mills & Boon. These were marketed in their millions, and in many different languages, around the world.
