From the bestselling author of A Rural Affair" & "A Crowded Marriage" comes Catherine Alliotts brilliantly warm & funny take on taking control of your life in " Olivias Luck". I dont care what colour you paint the sodding hall. Im leaving. When her husband Johnny suddenly walks out on ten years of marriage their ten-year-old daughter & the crumbling house theyre up to their eyeballs renovating Olivia is at first totally devastated. How could he? How could she not have noticed his unhappiness? But shes not one to weep for long. Not when shes got three builders camped in her back garden a neighbour with a never-ending supply of cast-off men she thinks Olivia would be drawn to & a daughter with her own firm views on.. .well just about everything. Will Johnny ever come back? & if he doesnt will Olivias luck ever change for the better? Step into Alliott country with " Olivias Luck". Praise for Catherine Alliott: " The writing is both intelligent & sparkling". (Marian Keyes). " Alliotts joie de vivre is irresistible". (" Daily Mail"). Catherine Alliott is the author of twelve bestselling novels: "A Crowded Marriage" "A Married Man" " Not That Kind of Girl" " Going Too Far" " The Old-Girl Network" " Olivias Luck" " Rosie Meadows Regrets..." " The Wedding Day" " The Real Thing" " The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton" " One Day in May" "A Rural Affair". She lives with her family in Hertfordshire."