Anne Piper
ASIN: B077QCD9GD
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 169
Desperate British housewives…Charity Robinson wants to feel liberated. Her three young daughters think she is a doormat, and happily treat her like one. Her husband, a well-heeled architect, is surely about to divorce her for one of his young secretaries, or at the very least entomb her in the country cottage he is building. That is, if it ever gets built – she can’t even get the builders to stop dragging their feet!Determined to break out of the confines of her home, Mrs Robinson returns to college to take a course in social work. As a post graduate, she hopes to find independence, both emotionally and financially. Instead she finds a young and handsome French student, with whom - much to her amazement - she begins an affair.But does the young man see her as a lover, or as a mother? She hardly knows, and finding herself on holiday in France, dining with the young man’s wealthy bachelor ...