An uplifting and warming story about starting again and discovering the pleasures of life . . .
Leah Jarrett is a teacher, a single mum, and fed up. No longer are those bouts of controlled crying enough to keep her on track - nor are they even particularly controlled any more. The day she tells the vile headmistress (known as Twisted Sister) what she (and the rest of the school) really think of her - is also the day she decides to do something with her life.
But aside from dealing with a teenage son whose approach to studying is to smoke and listen to music in his room, a childless sister with a perfect job, perfect hair and perfect friends, and the fact that she's still really in love with her ex-husband, the fact is Leah is hitting middle age and the basket of opportunity seems rather smaller than she remembers.
Full of Helen Townsend's wit, warmth and sharp observations, this is meeting the mid-life crisis head-on. A must for anyone who's ever decided not to take it anymore.
