Suburban complacency and marital infidelity get their comeuppance in this black comedy.

When Natalie's husband, Harry, kisses her and their two children goodbye, departs for the office, and never returns, Natalie immediately blames herself. If she hadn't been cheating on her husband every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, he never would have left her for his secretary, a local beauty queen... Now in her ninth decade, Fay Weldon is one of the foremost chroniclers of our time, a novelist who spoke to an entire generation of women by daring to say the things that no-one else would. Her work ranges over novels, short stories, children's books, nonfiction, journalism, television, radio, and the stage. She was awarded a CBE in 2001.

"Fay Weldon is a national treasure." - Literary Review

"Wickedly stylish. Bursting with intelligence and fire." - Daily Telegraph

"Prolific and provocative, Weldon shines brightest in the league table of British women novelists." - Time Out