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On the day that her youngest child leaves home, Alice Hatton discovers two disturbing truths in a matter of hours. The Empty Nest cliche is absolutely true, and she does not love her husband Peter at all. Horrified by the thought of spending another thirty years with Peter in their North London suburb, Alice embarks on a dubious course of self-fulfilment. When she must cope with loss for the second time, she discovers what even the most respectable woman can be capable of.
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Amanda Brookfield gained a First Class Honours Degree from Oxford before working at an advertising agency for several years. She wrote her first novel while living in Buenos Aires with her diplomat husband, and her second while in Washington, D.C. She has two young sons and now lives in London and divides her time between writing fiction and looking after her family.
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The first third of this debut novel from Great Britain is marvelous, the middle third not bad, the last, contrived. At 51, with no outside interests or strong friendships, Alice Hatton faces an empty nest and a husband she does not love. On an impulse she dyes her gray hair a startling brown, and, after her husband fails to join her for dinner, dines instead with a nice man whom she accompanies to his club for the first good sex of her life. Then the man asks how much he owes her. Alice's initial indignation and return home are hilarious. A subsequent affair is barely plausible and a letdown for the reader, however. Subsequent events include the return home of Alice's daughters and the introduction of an American character whose dialogue is a parody of English condescension. A final, insufficiently motivated plot twist, involving a bastard grandchild, is additionally disappointing, given the promise of the book's beginning.
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- PublisherTrafalgar Square
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0340624485
- ISBN 13 9780340624487
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