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Spinning Around

Catherine Jinks

2004247 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2004
first published
  • 2010Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd · ENGISBN 9781741152722
  • 2005Kensington · 247 pages · ENGISBN 9780758208781
  • 2004Allen & Unwin · 252 pagesISBN 9781741141559
  • 2006Kensington · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780758208798

This wickedly funny novel is a satisfying page-turner - a post-Bridget Jones story about a woman who (as well as going to work, organising the renovations and looking after the kids) is trying to find out on the quiet if her husband really is involved with someone else.Helen's life never used to be so messy. Not when she had money in the bank, a great figure, a cutting-edge haircut and a suede brush that she only used on suede. In those days, her world was like a well-organised filofax, and her gorgeous boyfriend, Matt, was just the icing on the cake.Now it's all different. She seems to be losing her grip as she juggles two kids, a never-ending renovation and a part-time job that has unexpectedly become her refuge. As for that wildly sexy and endearingly impulsive boyfriend, he's turned into a wildly impractical and annoyingly impulsive husband.Even so, Helen doesn't want to lose him to a Girl With Purple Hair. During one crazy, out-of-control week she finds herself in some kind of bizarre soap opera, checking phone bills, emptying Matt's wallet, rifling through his underwear drawer, employing a private detectiveA funny, warm and universal story about finding out what's really important.

How it feels

MoodFunny

How it reads

Character focusTwo hander

Worth knowing

Romance levelCentral

When and where

ThemesLove
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