Author:Judy Astley
Perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Milly Johnson and Trisha Ashley, this is a story full of wry laughs and shrewd insight into friendship and family from bestselling author Judy Astley.
'Wickedly funny... A thoroughly entertaining romp best enjoyed when you're on a sun lounger with a glass of Pimm's to hand' - DAILY MAIL
'Frothy fun from an author worth noting' - DAILY EXPRESS
'This deliciously funny novel had me laughing out loud' - WOMAN AND HOME
'Highly entertaining with dry humor and hilarious situations' -- ***** Reader review
'Perfect for summer, Judy's books show a real passion for writing' -- ***** Reader review
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FRIENDS SHARE EVERYTHING... DON'T THEY?
Stella works as an agony aunt for a teenage magazine. She lives on Pansy Island, a self-consciously arty community on the Thames, where her husband Adrian writes erotic novels in a summerhouse by the river, while her two teenage children prepare themselves for adult life in various ways not necessarily recommended in the pages of their mother's advice columns.
Stella's friends assume that she has no problems of her own, and shamelessly come to her for the advice she dishes up for a living on the magazine; Stella, however, finds herself with a problem she cannot handle when Abigail, her rich and glamorous friend from university, comes to stay.
Abigail has been deserted by her husband, and has decided that Stella's life, and more particularly Stella's husband will fill the gap nicely...
I enjoyed [In Borrowed Light] so much that I've bought the first two [books in the Langani series]
—— Historical Novels Review[Praise for A Durable Fire:] An epic of murder, betrayal, love, loss, forgiveness and redemption
—— The TimesMining a dark vein opened by Bret Easton Ellis and George Saunders, Palahniuk specialises in producing nightmarish visions of American society that manage to be both repugnant and hilarious-the reckless brilliance of his imagination keeps you turning the pages
—— Literary ReviewSplendid
—— Daily TelegraphThe Return of the Native is . . . thoughtful, valedictory, poetic, tinged with the somberness of an uncertainty which seems to well up from the depths of the author's own subconscious . . . Hardy's sense of the tragic life of human beings, mere small fragments of consciousness in a vast uncaring universe, comes directly from his own youthful awareness of the place and circumstances described in the novel.
—— John Bayley