RURAL BLISS

Hardback Published by Hodder and Stoughton 2002    
Paperback Published by Coronet April 2003    

THREE WOMEN, THREE DIFFERENT WAYS OF LOVING.   

Thirty-five year old Fran Holdaway has an enviable life.  She has finally found a gorgeous and faithful second husband, Paul.  She has a job in advertising in London, and commutes from her wonderful country home in Leicestershire, which she has restored with her own hands.  Now that she has feathered her nest, it's time to make babies, she thinks.

Allie is her oldest and best friend.  Admitting to thirty-nine (although Fran knows better)  she is a metropolitan to her core, living in Bloomsbury, working at the same agency as Fran in Covent Garden,
faithful to no man, but voracious lover of many.

Sam is Fran's fresh-faced country friend- the estate agent who sold her the retreat to her Rural Bliss.  But Sam has a dark secret.  She has been the clandestine mistress of a married man for seven years.
Surely its time to move on?

All three women's lives are turned upside-down in this delicious new comedy romance by multi-talented actor, director and screen-writer
Lou Wakefield.  Wry, witty and laugh-out-loud funny, Rural Bliss is a sparkling successor to her first novel, the highly acclaimed Tuscan Soup.

"I was a great fan of Tuscan Soup, as was my reader, who claims this is even better.  Centering on three women's different ways of discovering love, it is actually "laugh-out-loud" on several occasions.  Warm, astute and deeply satisfying..." Paperback Preview