Nothing for you LOVE

Author: Helen Muir
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: I want you to know, nine, that by the time a woman reaches my age, there is a ball of total rage inside her. She no longer voices her feelings in the belief that things will change, because they won’t... For the sake of self-preservation and peace, she switches off, hoping to find her own way to spiritual fulfillment in the years remaining to her. Despite what they think, this does not necessarily involve handmaidenship on a treadmill of cookery and sexual intercourse. Suffering from her own ball of rage, Eleanor Hobbs leaves her husband, Hugo, behind in London and goes home to Liverpool to tend her Uncle Hunt, who is in hospital. She doesn’t want to divorce Hugo, a former conjuror. She simply wants to see less of him. And less of builders, writs, bailiffs and people from the council grants department, who Hugo dreams of getting his own back on...
Author Bio: Helen Muir has written short stories for Woman and Woman’s Own, and articles for Harper’s Bazaar, the Observer, The Sunday Times, and Racing Post. She is the author of seven adult novels, including most recently Consequences and Celestial Seasoning. Helen Muir lives in Primrose Hill, North London.