Customer Reviews
good read but predictable ending - By: traf0305, 11 Jun 2007 
Like the previous reviewer this was my first Mavis Cheek book. Her writing is intelligent, witty & she creates genuinely likeable characters. My only gripe is that I guessed the ending about two thirds into the book & read on with the hope I would be proved wrong - I wasn't, which is a bit of a let down. However, I will purchase more Mavis Cheek books as she has the potential to become a favourite.
A cracking read - By: M. R. Poulson, 10 Oct 2001 
This is the first Mavis Cheek book I have read & I had thought it had the potential to be classic "chicklit". Not necessarily a bad thing, but something I limit my intake of. How wrong I was. This is intelligent writing - thought provoking, well drawn characters & a depth that you just don't find in chicklit.
Joan, married for just a year, is abandoned by her husband for another woman. She deals with this by shutting herself away from everyone & adopting the "fifth dimension" of a solitary life. Her only social intercourse is with her fellow school teachers, & she works hard to avoid speaking to them. She reckons without Robin & his attraction to her, which makes this harder than she would like at school, & her friendly next door neighbours who are clearly concerned about her. Through them, into her life comes the dashingly handsome actor Finbar Flynn & her solitary confinement is shattered.
I'm off to get my next Mavis Cheek book.
