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Rose Lloyd was the last to suspect that Nathan, her husband of over twenty years, was having an affair, and that he was planning to leave her. But the greatest shock was yet to come; for his mistress was Rose's colleague and friend, Minty. So Rose was left alone in their once-happy family home, where she and Nathan had brought up their children. Then she started thinking - about the man she'd married, and how well she really knew him. About the carefree yet studious girl she had been before she met him. Twenty years ago Rose had to make the choice between two very different lives. Could she recapture what she nearly chose back then, and bring new meaning to her life now?
'REVENGE OF THE MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN explores the theme of the deserted wife by first describing her heroine Rose's devastating pain at being deserted, then providing a succession of unexpected twists that have us cheering her all the way towards a promising new future and jeering at her former husband, henpecked by a demanding young mistress. Barbara Flynn rises to the challenge of being a heartbroken wife, the temperamental daugher, the bitchy new mistress and the disconsolate husband.'
Christina Hardyment
THE TIMES
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