Wise Follies (ebook)

Argumento de Wise Follies (ebook)

Why waving goodbye to Mr Wonderful may be the wisest folly of all...

Alice Evans has got a GSOH, GFCH (gas-fired central heating), a cat and a Mitsubishi colour portable. People have told her she can look pretty if she tries. She's thirty-eight and single, so will someone please pass the message on?

What Alice thinks she needs is Mr Wonderful. A man like her pottery teacher, James Mitchel, who's warm and wise and gorgeous. But as one long, hot summer disappears with no sign of her snaring the man of her dreams, Alice is forced to consider the alternatives.

Should she settle for Mr Mediocre, her dull but dependable ex boyfriend Eamon, and spend the rest of her days trying to like golf?

Or could there be another way for a woman to ditch all the longing - and really start living her life?

My name is Alice Evans. Im thirty-eight, single, and very keen on art and gardening. Im also growing increasingly fond of my cat and watch far more television than I used to. Ive been celibate for over a year and occasionally find small spiky hairs on my chin. I dont think these two things are necessarily connected. I think my not having sex has more to do with my being rather disillusioned with men in general. Get me on the subject of men on a chin-hair day and I can sound as knowledgeably resigned as any political pundit. This is because Ive been waiting to meet my Mr Wonderful for years now, but he still hasnt swooped me off on his white charger. In fact, I think by this stage hes probably married or become bisexual or a Buddhist.

In my more realistic romantic moments I remind myself that men are not the answer anyway. They are just another questionand a very puzzling one at that. Theres even a book called Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus . Certainly many of my romantic entanglements have a fairly inter-galactic feel about them. I wish I could summon Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek to help me sort them out.0