Monica thinks those downstairs have more fun than she does in her life upstairs so she wants to find out if this is true. In some ways she is conducting an experiment as she embarks on a life as a cook-general. Her decision is simply laughed at by her family and they seem to tolerate her rather mad scheme of going out to work.
And Monica does go out to work as a cook-general, she does the cooking rather by luck than by skill.
The cleaning by only moving the dust around from one place to the other and around the static items.
Taking dogs out simply involves letting them out of the door in the vain hope that they come back.
How can a quick read give you characters that get right under your skin from about the second or third page in? Well this quick read can.
Jane makes the rather rash decision to move to the other side of the world to speed up her chances of getting a husband - apparently in one town in the Australian outback there is a shortage of women. Jane's sister, Anthea, the one that got right under my skin, with her self-righteous attitude and oh so perfect life and boyfriend thinks Jane has lost her mind.
But Jane goes, and so Anthea follows to make sure that Jane is not going to make the biggest mistake of her life. What she did not realise was that perhaps Andrea is the one… Read more
Mirabelle Bevan, is bored it must be said. Her life during the Second World War was slightly more exciting even though it was from a desk within the Secret Service and her lover was also to be found there when not on secret missions. But the end of the war changes a lot of things and it is now 1951, Mirabelle's lover is now dead and she has moved to Brighton where she has taken up an administration role within a debt collection agency. Life is very every day and humdrum.
But then unexpectedly a case comes into the agency that suddenly stirs the past interest of Mirabelle and perhaps her skills can be put to use once again. Mirabelle takes on the case in the absence of her boss… Read more
