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"Women reach fifty and think they're on the verge of
liberation and excitement, and their broken-down men just want to stay home
and fart. Or in my case, go and live in a cabin in the Rockies and fart."
Sally Howe plans to spend her husband-free year trying her hand at becoming
a wildly successful author. But she's beset by distractions - the first
being a queue of local lotharios, led by young Billy Bathgate, village
postmaster with a tartan trouser habit and an obsession with drain rods.
liberation and excitement, and their broken-down men just want to stay home
and fart. Or in my case, go and live in a cabin in the Rockies and fart."
Sally Howe plans to spend her husband-free year trying her hand at becoming
a wildly successful author. But she's beset by distractions - the first
being a queue of local lotharios, led by young Billy Bathgate, village
postmaster with a tartan trouser habit and an obsession with drain rods.
Warm, wise and funny, Plotting for Beginners offers a wry evaluation of
long-haul marriages, plus a lesson on how to hit the menopause running and
seize your freedom when the family has gone.
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"Women reach fifty and think they're on the verge of liberation
and excitement, and their broken-down men just want to stay home and fart.
Or in my case, go and live in a cabin in the Rockies and fart." Sally Howe
plans to spend her husband-free year trying her hand at becoming a wildly
successful author. But she's beset by distractions - the first being a
queue of local lotharios, led by young Billy Bathgate, village postmaster
with a tartan trouser habit and an obsession with drain rods. Warm, wise
and funny, "Plotting for Beginners" offers a wry evaluation of long-haul
marriages, plus a lesson on how to hit the menopause running and seize your
freedom when the family has gone.
and excitement, and their broken-down men just want to stay home and fart.
Or in my case, go and live in a cabin in the Rockies and fart." Sally Howe
plans to spend her husband-free year trying her hand at becoming a wildly
successful author. But she's beset by distractions - the first being a
queue of local lotharios, led by young Billy Bathgate, village postmaster
with a tartan trouser habit and an obsession with drain rods. Warm, wise
and funny, "Plotting for Beginners" offers a wry evaluation of long-haul
marriages, plus a lesson on how to hit the menopause running and seize your
freedom when the family has gone.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This novel is a playful take on the motivations and quirks of getting older, whilst having all the insecurities and passions of being young at heart. Sally Howe is driven to use her year of apparent separation from Walden obsessed husband Gus to achieve her goal of getting her novel published. With plenty of self-mocking twists to her 'writerly plait', she turns to friend Kate for online moral support, and keeps an amusing journal of the year's ups and downs.
The strength of the novel is in the warm, humorous characterisation of Sally - her strong presence gives life to the absent though fascinatingly eccentric Gus, and the stylised Kate who is only encountered through email.
Other characters seem to float across Sally's life, wanting something or other from her, while she is single-mindedly trying to drive forward as a writer - against the backdrop of being a menopausal novice in the game. She also unwittingly attracts more male attention than she can handle, which provides light relief to the two main questions of whether she'll get published, and is her marriage over.
'Plotting for Beginners'is a highly entertaining study of insecurity and intelligence - and a good joke that the authors have actually succeeded in getting their novel published, whereas Sally has a more circuitous path to recognition. It's also a rare tribute to long term relationships and how the important things just get more so.
Uplifting read, highly recommended.
The strength of the novel is in the warm, humorous characterisation of Sally - her strong presence gives life to the absent though fascinatingly eccentric Gus, and the stylised Kate who is only encountered through email.
Other characters seem to float across Sally's life, wanting something or other from her, while she is single-mindedly trying to drive forward as a writer - against the backdrop of being a menopausal novice in the game. She also unwittingly attracts more male attention than she can handle, which provides light relief to the two main questions of whether she'll get published, and is her marriage over.
'Plotting for Beginners'is a highly entertaining study of insecurity and intelligence - and a good joke that the authors have actually succeeded in getting their novel published, whereas Sally has a more circuitous path to recognition. It's also a rare tribute to long term relationships and how the important things just get more so.
Uplifting read, highly recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
a cracking good read even if I needed a dictionary in places.
Format:Paperback
An undemanding read and apart from being very funny in places does not have much of a story.
It was more along the lines of Bridget Jones Diary, although nothing like as good in my opinion. It is the diary, plus a few emails of Sally Howe, fifty plus, menopausal and an aspiring writer. Her husband has taken a one year sabbatical from their thirty plus year marriage and gone to live in the wilderness.
Her plans for the year were to make a success of her writing by getting her work published. She does succeed in her aim, well sort of but not without some amusing distractions. She does not have the chance to be lonely, or even enjoy the peace and quiet. With her brother turning up to stay and a cast of others vying for her attentions, she has plenty of material to use for her writing.
Some of whom are very amusing characters; whose portrayals by Sally in her diary were the reason I kept reading. Worth reading if you do not expect more than a good laugh.
It was more along the lines of Bridget Jones Diary, although nothing like as good in my opinion. It is the diary, plus a few emails of Sally Howe, fifty plus, menopausal and an aspiring writer. Her husband has taken a one year sabbatical from their thirty plus year marriage and gone to live in the wilderness.
Her plans for the year were to make a success of her writing by getting her work published. She does succeed in her aim, well sort of but not without some amusing distractions. She does not have the chance to be lonely, or even enjoy the peace and quiet. With her brother turning up to stay and a cast of others vying for her attentions, she has plenty of material to use for her writing.
Some of whom are very amusing characters; whose portrayals by Sally in her diary were the reason I kept reading. Worth reading if you do not expect more than a good laugh.
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