Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around January 8, 2008. About the Author Maria Beaumont is twenty-one, or twenty-eight, or sometimes thirty-eight — it depends on how good the lighting is. I didn't think it would be do-able, but my American publisher (Voice) pushed for it and they were so right! She's now the funky studio manager at The Zone, an exclusive Total Body Emporium (that's a gym to you and me) where pop stars and plebs alike walk in to work out. This project (HNFRI) will have a damaging and detrimental effect upon the residents and environment of those living in Hinckley/Burbage and surrounding areas.

No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.She has since re-invented herself as a respectable middle-class housewife living in a posh North London suburb. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. I didn’t have a dedication page in the book, so I’d like to take this opportunity to thank every member of every dysfunctional family I know for the inspiration,” she laughed. It conjures up images of fluffy airheads who are too vacuous to read anything that doesn't have the words, 'yummy' or 'mummy' or 'slummy' in them. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.

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On the eve of her thirty-seventh birthday, Fran Clark finds herself in a role she would never have envisioned: that of a surprisingly desperate housewife. Maria Beaumont is the author of Motherland, Chicklit Club's Book of 2007, and also has just released a novel, Rubbish Boyfriends, under the name Jessie Jones. The mothers running her school’s equivalent to the PTA act and react just like catty women everywhere. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. In the mad, bad days following her breakup with the georgous but despicabel Kake, Amy took a pseudonym and wrote a novel detailing the incredible sexploits of one Donna Sanderson, the 'Indiana Jones of Shagging', a book that 'pits fresh-faced girly wit against sweaty pelvis-pounding eroticism' (Cosmopolitan), 'subverts the chick-lit genre with a coruscating shock of raw, hard sex' (Time Out), and disgusts this reviewer to the very core of his being' (Daily Telegraph).Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. But when Fran realizes she has failed her children one too many times, and begins to suspect her husband is having an affair, she knows she has hit rock bottom. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.