Monday, March 21, 2005

Unchained Melanie by Judy Astley

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(289 pages)
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Melanie finds herself single again after years of being one half of a couple. Her friends predict loneliness, frustration, disaster. Her parents are convinced she's a failure in life. But Melanie is overwhelmingly excited to be able to do her own thing - she plans a programme of behaving badly, after a lifetime of behaving properly. With her daughter off to university and ex-husband Roger married off at last - to his lamentably young girlfriend whom he accidentally got pregnant at the office party - she has what a teenager would call a Free House, and she intends to make the most of it. But is the single life quite all it's cracked up to be? If no-one needs her any more, what is she really for?

A sweet look at life after marriage and all that it involves. Having never been married and having no kids, I couldnt really relate to everything, but it certainly was worth the read.

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