Book 59: "The Starter Marriage" by Kate Harrison

[kittiwake]

She moves towards me as if she's going to kiss me, but then thinks better of it. I wonder if that's why Barney left me. I am the most self-contained person I know, someone whose personal space might as well be staked out with barbed wire.

I read this author's first book "Old School Ties" before she did an author talk at the BCUK Unconvention a couple of year's ago, and her second novel is equally enjoyable. Set in Birmingham, it is the story of Tess, a primary school teacher whose best friend persuades her to join a course on surviving divorce, since she is not coping at all well with her husband's desertion.