As Good As It Gets? (45 page)

Laugh-out-loud funny, Fiona’s writing deal’s with those real-life embarrassing moments we all know so well …

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“What do you need a boyfriend for? You’re a mum.”

Sharply observed, laugh-out-loud funny and full of dating disasters, this is the perfect read for fans of Tracy Bloom and Kate Long.

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Acknowledgements

Enormous thanks to super-agent Caroline Sheldon, and to my fabulous new editor, Helen Huthwaite at Avon. Here’s to lots more books and carrot cake! For 15 years I’ve had the good fortune to belong to a brilliant writing group. Tania, Vicki, Amanda, Pauline, Hilary and Sam – dreaming up plotlines wouldn’t be half as much fun without you. My Facebook friends also help me enormously – I love your banter and jokes. Special thanks to Rachel Millward, who alerted me to the fact that spliff/weed (or whatever the young ’uns call it these days) is sometimes known as ‘cheese’ – it’s in the book, Rachel! And a big hello and hug to lovely Kim Lock
who won a little competition I ran. See, I did remember!

I turned 50 as I finished writing this book. Thank you to my lovely friends who travelled so far (Belgium! The Netherlands!
Australia
!) for a week of japes and gin, and who make me feel lucky every day. Jen, Kath, Lode, Susan and her boyfriend Jack D, Wendy R, Wendy V, Marie, Ben, Iain, Chris, Elisabet, Gayle, Esther, Ellie, Lesley, Jackie, Keith, Sumishta, Seori, the inimitable Curries, Cragga C, Andy, Mickey and Jennifer – you made it the best birthday of my life. And you’re the Mary Berry of Lanarkshire, Elaine Hughes.

My mum moved into a care home this year; I don’t know what I’d have done without my dog walks and chats with Adele, Tania and Carolann. Finally, thank you to Jimmy, Sam, Dexter and Erin, for being all-round brilliant. Love you so much.

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About the Author

Fiona was born in a youth hostel in Yorkshire. She started working on teen magazine
Jackie
at age 17, then went on to join
Just Seventeen
and
More!
where she invented the infamous ‘Position of the Fortnight’. Fiona now lives in Scotland with her husband Jimmy, their three children and a wayward rescue collie cross called Jack.

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Mum On The Run

The Great Escape

Pedigree Mum

Take Mum Out

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