NEW RELEASE
The Foster Husband - Pippa Wright (2013)
With Kate's marriage in tatters, she is back in Lyme Regis, living in her late grandmother's place. Her bossy younger sister, Prue, is getting married and since her fiance, Ben, needs somewhere to live - and she is certainly not going to live in sin - she demands that Kate lets him move in with her. The last thing Kate wants is someone leaving dirty dishes lying around and inviting his mates over to watch the game. So Kate decides to train Ben in the fine art of being a useful and caring husband. Meanwhile, Kate needs to work out what she will do next in life. The present-day story unfolds amid a series of flashbacks to Kate meeting husband Matt and working in the music industry. Indeed it is these flashbacks - with its clues as to why her marriage failed - that form the crux of the novel. The "foster husband" aspect seems more like a minor sub-plot. All in all, this is a solid story that may well be the author's best to date.
The Foster Husband, by Pippa Wright, asks what if you could start your relationship again? The summary says: "Kate left her seaside home town of Lyme Regis for the bright lights of London when she was eighteen, and never looked back. She had it all: the glamorous career, the lovely house, the gorgeous husband. But now she's back: unemployed, separated, and holed up in her dead granny's bungalow. Worse still, she's forced to share the bungalow with Ben, the clueless and domestically challenged fiance of her bossy sister Prue. Ben is a man in need of simple instruction. And Kate is a woman in need of a project. So she decides to secretly train Ben, her foster husband, as a selfless pre-wedding gift to her sister. But Kate may still have a few lessons of her own to learn..." The Foster Husband is out in May.