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Fiction 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 288 pp. Rights: G12 Pub history:
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking hc 978-0-670-02342-4
(as A Surrey State of Affairs) On sale: 3/26/2013
“ I loved every dizzy, delightful page.”
—Helen Simonson, bestselling author of
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
“ The new Helen Fielding.”
—Company Magazine (U.K.)
“ Wildly entertaining and
amusing.” —Publishers Weekly
“ A sweetly hilarious novel . . . Constance
could be Bridget Jones’s mum! If you loved
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, you’ll love
this one, too.” —Mary Kay Andrews, author
of Summer Rental and Spring Fever
ClassiC Penguin
“A comic gem” (Alexander McCall Smith)
about a housewife who kisses her chintz
and her cheating husband goodbye—and
records it all in her blog-thingy
Constance Harding’s
(Rather) Startling Year
A Novel
Ceri Radford
Constance Harding lives in Surrey in a chocolate-box house
complete with a parrot named Darcy. It’s her little piece of heaven.
Or it would be if her housekeeper’s undergarments weren’t
popping up in her husband’s study, her twenty-five-year-old
son could just find a nice girl, and her teenage daughter weren’t
turning into a spandex-clad strumpet. But overnight, this daffy,
lovable everywoman’s eyes are opened, and she flees the nest.
Evocative of a more—ahem—mature Bridget Jones’s Diary,
Ceri Radford’s witty debut will have readers cheering as
Constance discovers the adventure and happiness she thought
it was too late to find—from partying in Ibiza to riding bareback
with a handsome gaucho whose only English words are “Britney”
and “Spears.”
n For readers of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, Major Pettigrew’s
Last Stand, and Bridget Jones’s Diary
n Visit ceriradford.com
CeRi RAdFoRd is a journalist and author. She lives near
Geneva, Switzerland.
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