Fifty Fifty - Mrs Diana June Wilkinson

Fifty Fifty "This book is great! It is hilarious!" Lisa Pinter "Just finished and hope there is a sequel! A very clever plot line. It could be any of us that are 'too young to be middle aged'. I loved it and didn't want it to end" Janet Keech "I did enjoy my train journey to Leeds! I loved the short headings and comparisons to life in the eighties. What happens next " Jan Hopperton "This made me laugh out loud!" Sue Williams "Superb. I really loved this book. Even though I've had a few glasses of wine I know when something is good" Sadie Kent The only way to approach middle age is with humour. Fifty Fifty charts a year in the life of one woman's struggle with day to day routine. A relatively smooth existence alongside her pompous, overbearing husband Harvey and perfect only son Jason soon degenerates into a year of mayhem when she reconnects with her first love. The smooth talking Charlton Heston has taken over as Pudsley's new premier dentist and his snake like charms haven't lost any of the pull which they once held over her twenty years previously. Sally's increasingly bizarre behaviour as a bored middle aged housewife is in stark contrast to the actions of the same young woman falling in love twenty five years earlier. Past and present diary entries paint a portrait of a woman torn between a carefree past and the humdrum present. Fifty Fifty provides a hilarious account of one woman's attempt to deal with life at this most crucial milestone. Every day presents a new challenge and the reader wonders just where the year will end as the slippery python, Mr Heston, starts to tighten his grip. The recorded annals of Sally's life incorporate boring routine in Pudsley, the iconic sleepy middle class English market town, a long remembered miscarriage in Brighton, family holidays in Italy and a trip to Uganda for her new multi-millionaire boss. Fifty Fifty provides plenty of laughs but also a very astute insight into what awaits us all as we approach our very own mid life crises.