No Man No Cry

Bold. Inspiring. Poignant. Funny. Four women … four life choices.

Olivia, Lindsay, Patty and Helen forge new lives for themselves, free from the debilitating effects of their selfish, calculating, indifferent men. Who needs them?

Olivia is fat. Okay, Olivia is grossly overweight, but she doesn’t care. She is a sensual and bubbly drama teacher who is unwittingly caught up in her own stage show when she falls for a senior student. But then with a husband like Dominic, who can blame her? When her antics with pupil Jamie become Oscar material, it’s goodbye teaching career. Unfortunately, Dominic is not so easily got rid of.

Lindsay is lost and alone in her self-imposed seclusion in the wilds of Scotland. She finds it difficult to cope with life until she is forced to face its stark reality, which necessitates coming to terms with the death of her husband, Brian, and her mother’s encroaching dementia. Heartache and pathos, along with assorted alarm clocks, make for uncomfortable bedfellows.

Patty is a very mixed-up lady; prim social worker by day and formidable rock chic by night. When criticism of her boss’s handling of a high-profile case sends her career, and her life, plummeting into a tailspin, she is compelled to rethink the choices she has made.

Helen, successful woman in the city, is not so fortunate in love. Since her self-image is wrapped up in the man she’s screwing, the rocky state of her third marriage is making her sick – literally. Fuelled by the uncertainty of how she will face life without her customary masculine prop, she begins her search for a more reliable crutch.

These women meet up in the raw heat of an Andalucian summer, where passions crackle like ice cubes in Sangria. Amorous gardeners, bullfights and unwanted, visiting men force them to confront their demons and reluctantly reveal the secrets of their pasts. Despite this catharsis, can these four disparate women finally dispel their fears and suspicions and open up to each other? And can they really live happily ever after without a man?