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Rules for a Perfect Life, by Niamh Greene, is about what happens when a woman loses her designer life. Maggie wants the perfect life - but if she keeps breaking the rules can she ever have it? And what are the rules? Rule One: Do not ditch the man everyone says is perfect for you because he eats the last yellow jelly-baby in the bag. Rule Two: Do not move to a shack in the country to 'find yourself' and inadvertently become an object of ridicule for the locals. Rule Three: Do not fall for a man who has two children who hate you, a saintly dead wife you can never live up to and a mother who thinks you are the hired help. Rules for a Perfect Life is out in June.
