A darkly & brilliantly funny look at what being a fly on the wall is really like Life Without Me is Anna Legat's debut novel Georgie Ibsen is a successful cynical fortysomething hotshot lawyer She runs her life professional & personal with precision & clear purpose She's just made a breakthrough in a crucial case her family is growing more independent things couldn't be better Until it all comes to a screeching halt when she's involved in a hit-&-run & ends up in a coma Somehow in her comatose state Georgie is given unique glimpses into the lives of her nearest & dearest their most intimate secrets her boring husband's intense involvement with a colleague; her son's lovelorn yearning for his mother's nurse; her fifteen-year-old daughter's bad boy boyfriend who just might be linked to the criminal mastermind involved in her last big case Throw in a neurotic actress sister a senile mother with a traumatic past & a smug subordinate barrister who's out to ruin her case in her absenceoh & a sex-god lawyer extraordinaire who's a deeply troubled soul with a penchant for some unsavoury practicesalthough Georgie is out of action life certainly isn't boring without her!