Book description
"Heaven save us from ourselves. And if you can’t manage that,
I’d settle for saving me from me. Just when I thought it was safe to
go back in the water, here I am again, drowning for all to see. Not
waving, as the troubled swimmer once famously said. I busied myself
with any household task I could find . . ."
Recently widowed but putting a brave face on it all (thanks to a not
insignificant windfall) Helen’s only problem, it seems, is the imminent
arrival of her fortieth birthday. Not something she can possibly avoid,
ignore or sulk about - not with friends like Leoni and sisters like
Julia around . . .
And there is much to celebrate. A beautiful new flat, gorgeous
hospitable neighbours and a delicious sense of freedom that only money
can buy. Until, that is, money becomes the one big fat problem in
Helen’s life and she becomes part of the unwilling army of the employed.
But it is no ordinary job that Helen is qualified for, in fact she is
qualified for precious little, which leads to her first ever encounter
with ‘the boss from hell’ . . . Alison Penton Harper lives in rural
Northamptonshire with her husband and two daughters. Her first novel,
Housewife Down
, was a finalist in Richard & Judy’s
2004 ‘How to Get Published’ competition.
