Category: Romance Publisher: Create Space
ISBN-10: 1467905313
Type: Fiction
Pages: 225
Copyright: Nov 9, 2011
ISBN-13: 9781467905312
When David Melling asks his wife what she would like for her 40th birthday, the answer shocks them both. Anna wants his permission to sleep with other men.
When David Melling asks his wife what she wants for her fortieth birthday, the answer stuns them both. Anna wants to be allowed to sleep with other men.
Anna is a long-suffering wife, juggling motherhood and a manic job as manageress of a ladies-wear shop in the UK's largest shopping centre. She believes in monogamy and cherishes her marriage. Or at least she thinks she does.
When David, her controlling solicitor husband makes Anna’s birthday wishes come true, she is amazed. But after shenanigans in the shopping mall and interference by her best friend Susie, life gets very complicated. Will Anna's crazy idea let her recapture the heady days of her youth or destroy the things she holds most dear - her children, her husband and her job?
Excerpt
It was unfortunate that my idea took hold during Sunday lunch with the in-laws.
As normal, I wasn’t listening to the conversation. My attention was focused on the children, willing them with absurd winks and grimaces to finish their food. They were forlorn gestures. The lamb was dry, silvery grey in colour, as if a slug had left a residue over each thick slice.
‘I've had enough!’ Izzy pushed the untouched lamb and the pulp of under-roasted potatoes around her plate. Her grandmother leaned back in her chair and took a deep, rasping, melodramatic intake of breath.
‘You, young lady, should finish your dinner. Your cousins eat every single morsel and then sit at the table, waiting quietly until every one else has finished.’
‘Mother, that's not helpful!’
David banged his cutlery onto his plate in an unexpectedly supportive manner. A globule of dark brown gravy flew across the table and splattered onto the pristine brick-motif linoleum floor.
Surprised by David’s interruption, and always eager to avoid confrontation with her beloved son, Marcia changed track. She turned towards me with a brittle smile.
‘Paul and I were wondering if you’ve decided what you are doing for your birthday? Just in case you want us around, dear. We’re planning a cruise and would hate to mess up your plans.’
I tried to contain my snigger.
‘Please don’t do anything on my account. I'm not planning on having a party.’
‘Are you going to be very, very old Mummy?’ Tom had an innocent, high-pitched six-year old voice.
‘Cos you've got quite crinkly skin. But not as walnut-y as Grandma's!’ he announced, innocently poking his horrified grandmother in the cheek.
‘Grandma's skin is lumpy too. It looks like the paintbrush hasn't covered up it up very neatly. I colour in much neater than that.’
‘Okay, that's quite enough!’ I was desperate to get my observant son to shut up, but secretly rather proud of his uncannily accurate description. Izzy was sulking, sucking the ends of her brown pigtails. It wasn’t pleasant to watch, and even more frustrating to listen to, but I was in no mood to intervene. I had assumed that my ever-tactful husband would steer the conversation to safer ground. But no, I was wrong.
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