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ROSIE THOMAS’S conventional life as a wife and mother stopped dead one unexceptional day in 1998. It was the moment that her husband, literary agent Caradoc King, confessed he had fallen in love with a younger woman and the news came as a seismic shock to the bestselling novelist.

Believing herself happily married for 23 years, Rosie was totally unprepared. Nor, as the shock waves gradually abated, had she the faintest idea how she was going to cope.
What happened to Rosie, the story of a wife finding her supposedly happy marriage at an abrupt end in middle age, is far from unusual. But, if finding her life in freefall was a shock — what Rosie did next was unexpected.

Up until that moment Rosie’s life had been ultra-respectable and domesticated. Some might argue dull. But not since. A gifted editor and age...

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