A very ordinary woman's hilarious and sometimes tragic journey to find love, adventure and a better life. Set in Southern Africa, it moves from the final days of the apartheid era in South Africa, to the present.
Fenella Fisher is not beautiful or blessed with extraordinary talents or gifts. Fenella Fisher is an ordinary woman, not unlike the girl next door or the woman you may work with. However, Fenella appears to live her life going from crisis to crisis. Things just seem to happen to her, and instead of letting them get her down, Fenella always lifts herself out of the mess, or ends up having the last laugh. In the book, Fenella embarks on a rollercoaster ride through life, searching for love and the dream man - who always turns out to have flaws - as well as a better life for her children.
On her journey, Fenella encounters con-artists, crazy sickos, other women's husbands and a few genuinely nice people who become her lifelong friends.
Excerpt
“Er…quite. Miss Fisher. What seems to be the problem?” Dr. Hunk twitched his perfect Roman nose as he obviously caught a whiff of Kirsty’s penicillin perfume.
“My little girl somehow or other managed to reach onto the high kitchen counter, and take the bottle of antibiotics I got for her this morning.” Fenella attempted to look at the doctor with a wide-eyed innocent look. Glenda wasn’t fooled and kicked Fenella on the ankle.
“And? What is the problem?” For someone who must have been a good academic to become a doctor, Dr. Hunk was a little on the slow side.
“She drank all the contents of the bottle.”
“You’re kidding me, right?” chuckled Dr. Hunk. At least he had a sense of humour even though he was a little slow.
“Would I be paying a consultation fee to see a doctor, because I was making a joke?” asked Fenella sarcastically.
The doctor studied his fingernails in embarrassment. “Er,suppose not.”
“Well, what you going to do about it then? Must I take her to hospital?” Fenella hated being surrounded by imbeciles. Even if they were good-looking.
“No, hospital isn’t necessary for an overdose of penicillin,” reassured Dr. Hunk. “But, let’s just say that any bacteria within a 10km radius of your little girl will die instantly.”
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I think that everybody who wants to be loved should read this book, anybody who has ever faced rejection should read it and anybody who has lost everything and wants to be motivated to start again should read it. This book was definitely a page-turner and one you can't put down and have to read to the end in one sitting. It actually has a serious message which is couched in humour. the chapters could have had titles to let you know where the next scene was taking place as the story spanned about 20 years. But, that is just a suggestion and doesn't detract from the fast-paced well-written story.
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