A Novel Solution

'It's a bit tricky to find. Just down the lane from the old ochre pit.'

With these words, Trish, badly bruised by life, is catapulted into the world of once-celebrity author, Amanda Turner.

Her marriage on the rocks, no job, and at odds with her teenage daughters, Trish vows to reinvent herself. 'Like Madonna,' she tells her teens. 'Only as a writer.'

Naively, she pins her hopes on arrogant Amanda to nurture her and weekly classes begin at Amanda's gloomy house in the woods. Trish takes an instant dislike to Amanda's young, strapping handyman, Pavel, with an air of foreboding hanging over the scene-as well as an unpleasant aroma.

When Amanda vanishes, it's left to Trish to mount a rescue. Is she woman enough for the job? Will she ever write that bestseller?

Funny and touching, A Novel Solution is an engaging and uplifting story of a woman's struggle to sort her life out.