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Felicity Fights Back
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This weeks feature
Move over Chick Lit, here comes “Old Bag Lit” One woman’s hilarious journey from trauma to transformation.
Middle aged, overweight and abandoned by her husband of 30 odd years, Felicity’s story will touch the hearts of many. It’s bad enough that her husband should leave her at all but for someone two years her senior is really too much to bear. To add insult to Injury the woman is an old friend who Felicity had a crush on at school all those years ago. |
A great read. |
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Author Stella Sykes says the idea for her book came after she saw a number of friends splitting up who she thought were married forever. How would she feel if it happened to her? How would she deal with dating for the first time in 35 years? She set about writing a hilarious account of the flame haired, slightly eccentric Felicity whose body hasn’t been toned for years. Utterly lost, this hugely likeable woman pulls herself together to prove that life goes on and that all is not how it seems with those friends you think you know inside out. She also spends a great deal of time extricating herself from a series of very amusing and embarrassing incidents.
Stella says, “After so many years together people become used to undertaking certain roles. Not every divorcee or widow wants to be alone in her 60’s, having to learn how to change a tyre or become the token solo guest at dinner parties. As far as I’m concerned being married means never having to call a plumber.”
Stella knows more about marriage than most. She inherited her mother’s marriage bureau business, the first of its kind in the UK and which had launched in 1939. The bureau’s clients included MP’s, famous actors and Peers of the Realm. Now living in the New Forest with her second husband, Stella spends her life balancing the demands of writing her second novel, seeing her 6 grandchildren who range from 3 months to 18, and looking after a menagerie of Alpaca’s, chickens and dogs.
Published by Transita Ltd
Felicity Fights Back is now available in bookshops across the country at £7.99 ISBN: 1 905 175 27 2. |
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