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Synopsis
When Venetia Summers' husband leaves her for another, suddenly she finds herself a single mother of three, her every ounce of wit and resource called into play as she strives to hold together her newly lopsided family. Venetia's attempts to make the best of things, both for her and her children, is intricately recorded in her diaries. Her battles are everyday ones--with wayward flora and fauna, nits, a traumatic bathroom conversion. But there are consolations in her day-to-day existence and perhaps, amongst it all, the promise of new love.
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From the Inside Flap
Hilarity and tenderness abound in this novel narrated in pages torn from the diary of one Venetia Summers, a thirty-something divorced mother of three who resides in rural England and is owner of, among other things, controlling shares in her ex-husband's pet mortuary and numerous pairs of oddly colored Wellingtons.
While Venetia's life may not be as glamorous as the one she left behind in the city ten years ago, it certainly isn't dull. She has two exuberant young boys and one splendid baby girl-known simply as The Beauty-to feed and outfit and keep happy. Other responsibilities include upkeep of a lovely but ramshackle old house, complete with a garden growing with wild abandon, and the care of a variety of bloomered bantam hens. Then there's her mother, sometimes helpful and supportive but more often busy tossing back vodka and smoking cigarettes; a rather cute but presumptuous bathroom contractor and his oversexed Labrador; and various other friends, relations and country characters who dart in and out of Venetia's life, wreaking havoc along the way.
Fortunately for her, Venetia is the sort who can find beauty in the surrounding mayhem, and fortunately for us, she records it all with wry wit and great verve, sharing the joys and sometimes dubious pleasures of raising a family in the English countryside.
From the Back Cover
“An entertaining celebration of family life with all its highs, lows and eccentricities. It puts Barker firmly in the camp of interesting female novelists who entertain as much as they inform.”–The Times (London)
“Imagine Bridge Jones cooled out, married, the mother of three, living in the British countryside–and suddenly deserted by her husband. The result might be something like this breezy novel.”–Us Weekly
“Rafaella Barker endows her narrator with a keen sense of humor. And the author’s disarming portrait of country life almost makes you want to trade places with Venetia.” –The Dallas Morning News
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- PublisherIsis Large Print Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0753172070
- ISBN 13 9780753172070
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages312
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