WIFE IN THE NORTH

by

JUDITH O'REILLY

Jenny Colgan, author of AMANDA's WEDDING
'I howled with laughter, tears of recognition at every bloody page. My only problem was choosing who to pass it on to first.'

Jane Fallon, author of GETTING RID OF MATTHEW
'Genuinely funny and genuinely moving'

Lisa Jewell
'O'Reilly's account of an urban mum in Northumberland is funny, poignant and beautifully written'

Stephanie Calman, author of CONFESSIONS OF A BAD MOTHER
`Cold Comfort Farm with booster seats. Funny, honest and moving.'

Freya North, author of PILLOW TALK
'Based on the popular blog of the same name, WIFE IN THE NORTH traces the trials and tribulations of the author relinquishing her cosmopolitan life in London - for the wilds of Northumberland 350 miles away. Her new landscape soon becomes a leading character, not a backdrop, and O'Reilly writes of her new community with such wit but also sensitivity'

Marie Claire
'This hit blog-turned-novel is funny and tenderly moving'

Red
'Laugh-out-loud funny and so truthfully raw, it's painful'

Essentials
'Any woman would enjoy this - it's hilarious'

Maybe hormones ate her brain. How else did Judith's husband persuade her to give up her career and move from her beloved London to Northumberland with two toddlers in tow? Pregnant with number 3 Judith is about to discover that there are one or two things about life in the country that no one told her about: that she’d be making friends with people who believed in the four horsemen of the apocalypse; that running out of petrol could be a near death experience and that the closest thing to an ethnic minority would be a redhead. Judith tries to do that simple thing that women do, make hers a happy family. A family that might live happily ever after. Possibly even up North ...