Francesca's Party - Patricia Scanlan

I have enjoyed many books by Patricia Scanlan, so it was with relish that I picked up another of her offerings - Francesca's Party - and I was not disappointed in the slightest. I enjoyed this book from the very first to the very first page, and because of Patricia Scanlan's easy relaxed style it was like visiting an old friend. At the very start of the book we meet Francesca, and if you have already read the blurb, you realise that before long she is going to discover that her husband Mark is having an affair and that she is soon going to be facing life on her own. This is exactly what happens in the first few pages. Francesca drops Mark off at Dublin Airport ...  Read the complete review

As with every Patricia Scanlan book I've read (which is most of them) I have enjoyed this one and it has a really good storyline. Francesca Kirwan is the main character and has been the best mother to her children and wife to her Mark her husband. When she drops him at the airport one morning she doesn't realise quite how much her life is about to change. She discovers her husband has been having an affair with young successful banker, Nikki Langan. After the shock of what she has seen begins to subside Francesca needs to decide what she is going to do about the situation. Will she manage to turn it around and move on and make a new life for herself and stand on her own ...  Read the complete review