No Place For A Man: another light-hearted and laugh-out-loud comedy from bestselling author Judy Astley...

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Judy Astley

No Place For A Man

another light-hearted and laugh-out-loud comedy from bestselling author Judy Astley

Judy Astley

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English

Black Swan
15 April 2001

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Out of work - or just enjoying an unusually long holiday?

Perfect escapism again from the pen of bestselling author Judy Astley, No Place for a Man is a sizzling and seriously funny novel about family life and the eternal need to hold everything - and everyone - together.

Perfect for fans of Carole Matthews, Jenny Colgan, Lucy Diamond and Milly Johnson.

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* SOMEONE HAS TO HOLD IT ALL TOGETHER, AND IT WON'T BE HIM!

Jess has just waved goodbye to her darling son, off backpacking to Oz. She's left with two teenage daughters and husband Matt - all of whom find themselves regularly featured in her popular and lighthearted newspaper column in which she conveys to her readers an enviably cheery muddle of family life.

Things become less rosy when Matt, after twenty years with the same firm, is made redundant. Only Jess sees the potential calamity in this. Matt is delighted with his new freedom and takes to hanging out at the local bar with others of the male barely-employable tendency, drinking and drifting and dreaming up hopeless schemes to make them all rich...

Daughter no. 1, meanwhile, has taken up with a mysterious boy living in an abandoned car on the allotment, and her younger sister is over-burdened with a surfeit of secrets.

For Jess, trying to hold everything together and missing her first-flown child, it becomes ever-harder to maintain the carefree fa ade for her readers. Of course she could just tell them the truth...

By: Judy Astley
Imprint: Black Swan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 199g
ISBN: 9780552147644
ISBN 10: 0552147648
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 April 2001
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Judy Astley was frequently told off for day-dreaming at her drearily traditional school but has found it to be the ideal training for becoming a writer. There were several false-starts to her career- secretary at an all-male Oxford college (sacked for undisclosable reasons), at an airline (decided, after a crash and a hijacking, that she was safer elsewhere) and as a dress designer (quit before anyone noticed she was adapting Vogue patterns). She spent some years as a parent and as a painter before sensing that the day was approaching when she'd have to go out and get a Proper Job. With a nagging certainty that she was temperamentally unemployable, and desperate to avoid office coffee, having to wear tights every day and missing out on sunny days on Cornish beaches with her daughters, she wrote her first novel, Just for the Summer. She has now had eleven novels published by Black Swan.

Reviews for No Place For A Man: another light-hearted and laugh-out-loud comedy from bestselling author Judy Astley

A tale of our times which will ring true for wives and mothers everywhere, this latest offering from the ever-popular Judy Astley exposes the muddle of middle-class life through the eyes of Jess, her husband Matt and her children. Jess has always relied on the normal ups and downs of family fortunes to provide her with topics for her popular and humorous newspaper column. She has generously shared with her readers the angst of parenting adolescents, covering everything an average family would recognise - exam pressure, dead pets, the trauma of broken friendships. But the material becomes too meaty for a lighthearted touch: after 20 years with the same firm, Matt is made redundant and takes to hanging out at the local bar while dreaming up doubtful schemes to make him and his drinking partners rich. The eldest daughter is living love's young dream with a mysterious boy whose only home seems to be an abandoned car on the local allotments. And the baby of the family is entrusted with secrets she's too young to cope with. Jess's editor wants fresh themes and sends her off to experience new challenges for today's woman: having a bra properly fitted and braving the sophistication of a personal shopper. As she struggles to cover up the hard facts of modern living with a more palatable fa?ade of family life, is now the real time for Jess to confide in her readers? (Kirkus UK)