How Dare She‪?‬

How Dare She ? is a shocking, funny and heartwarming novel about the confusion and crisis that can hit in life.

What happens when you turn around to discover you are not in love with your husband anymore? What happens when your business – your baby – is rocked by the recession and financial security starts slipping like sand through your fingers? What does it mean for your own womanhood when your daughters come of age?

Chaos ensues.

After her father dies, Lily Barthes launches, with enthusiasm, into a reckless love affair and breaks up her family. There follow months of indecision and sexual chaos until she collapses into bed for a week, reduced to sipping the cooking brandy whilst reading Anna Karenina over and over. Lily can’t decide what to have for breakfast, let alone work out who is the right man for her.

But the real quandary lies far deeper. When will Lily Barthes let go of the idea of ‘a solution’ and find the courage to be herself?