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A Novel for New Beginnings..... set in the Derbyshire Peak District
"Women reach fifty and think they're on the verge of liberation and excitement, and their broken-down men just want to stay home and fart. Or in my case, go and live in a cabin in the Rockies and fart."
Sally Howe plans to spend her husband-free year trying her hand at becoming a wildly successful author. But she's beset by distractions - the first being a queue of local lotharios, led by young Billy Bathgate, the village postmaster with a tartan trouser habit and an obsession with drain rods. Then her delightfully empty nest fills up again - her younger son boomerangs home with a new-found vegan-activist agenda, and her DIY-crazy brother comes to stay.
Warm, wise and funny, Plotting for Beginners offers a wry evaluation of long-haul marriages, plus a lesson on how to hit the menopause running and seize your freedom when the family has gone.
"Dangerously addictive" BBC Radio
"I loved every minute...funny, quirky... different, refreshing, and spot-on with its observations" The Guardian
"Wonderfully funny...enormously satisfying, well-written and perfectly-plotted" Trashionista
"Amusing and unpretentious" The Times
"Charming, intelligent and side-splittingly funny" Lynne Barrett-Lee
Buoyant and charming...hilarious bursts of verve and wit" E Online
Genre: General Fiction
"Women reach fifty and think they're on the verge of liberation and excitement, and their broken-down men just want to stay home and fart. Or in my case, go and live in a cabin in the Rockies and fart."
Sally Howe plans to spend her husband-free year trying her hand at becoming a wildly successful author. But she's beset by distractions - the first being a queue of local lotharios, led by young Billy Bathgate, the village postmaster with a tartan trouser habit and an obsession with drain rods. Then her delightfully empty nest fills up again - her younger son boomerangs home with a new-found vegan-activist agenda, and her DIY-crazy brother comes to stay.
Warm, wise and funny, Plotting for Beginners offers a wry evaluation of long-haul marriages, plus a lesson on how to hit the menopause running and seize your freedom when the family has gone.
"Dangerously addictive" BBC Radio
"I loved every minute...funny, quirky... different, refreshing, and spot-on with its observations" The Guardian
"Wonderfully funny...enormously satisfying, well-written and perfectly-plotted" Trashionista
"Amusing and unpretentious" The Times
"Charming, intelligent and side-splittingly funny" Lynne Barrett-Lee
Buoyant and charming...hilarious bursts of verve and wit" E Online
Genre: General Fiction
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