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The story of a woman who, at a turning point in her life, casts aside convention and embarks on a heady new existence. Catherine Jones -- conscientious working wife and mother -- is catapulted into a dramatic life-change. As the shockwaves subside, she realizes that she has never had the chance to be her true self, never even considered who that self might be. Over the years she has become her own gaoler, someone merely waiting to live. Peeling off her 'second skin' of duty, guilt and fear, she starts living with a vengeance. She joins a bohemian flatshare in Camden Town with people little older than her own children. She takes a job in Camden market -- a startling contrast to suburbia. She meets a poet, Will, and embarks on her first ever affair. But her heady new existence is threatened by her family's demands, even, paradoxically, by Will himself. At this turning point in her life, will she succeed in her bid for freedom and become the person she was born to be?
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Wendy Perriam was expelled from a strict convent boarding-school and escaped to St Anne's College, Oxford, where she read History. After a stint in advertising and a succession of more offbeat jobs, she now writes full time.
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'Astute and action-packed... and, this being a Perriam novel, there's sex and more sex.' Val Hennessy, Woman's Journal 'It would be hard not to warm to the life-enhancing spirit of this tale of one woman's journey to self-discovery through thoroughly bad behaviour.' Good Housekeeping 'Risk and raunchiness combine in a page-turning treat' She Magazine 'One of the many unsung novelists of her generation. Intelligent and accessible, she is fighting for the same bit of turf as Joanne Trollope, but she is probably the more accomplished and varied writer of the two.' Sunday Telegraph
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- PublisherFlamingo
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 000649871X
- ISBN 13 9780006498711
- BindingPaperback
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