Constance Harding's (Rather) Startling Year: A Novel

Authors: Radford, Ceri
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC044000, FIC016000
ISBN: 9781101561249, Related ISBNs: 014312286X, 0670023426, 1101561246, 9780143122869, 9780670023424
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 288,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: "A comic gem" (Alexander McCall Smith) about a housewife who kisses her chintz and her cheating husband goodbye

Constance Harding lives in a picture perfect house. She is, however, absolutely clueless about the real world, e.g.,

*why her twenty-five-year-old son still hasn’t found a nice girl,

*why her Lithuanian housekeeper’s thongs keep turning up in her husband’s study, and

*why her teenage daughter is dressed in head-to-toe spandex . . .
When disaster strikes, she flees her comfortable nest. Constance is about to discover a wider world she thought it was too late to find. And she’s putting it all in her blog-thingy.

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