They have no proper lives but they have lots of money and this book shows us how, through the power of (first) marrying up and (then) friendship, you can actually have it all.

As much as I loved watching them make Ant squirm, I REALLY loved the moments where the women were all together and just having the best time as friends - and I definitely had some warm fuzzies going on by the end! Joni is the real central character, and very easy to warm to (and relate to in many ways, apart from the gym 🤣), but I also fell for sweet widow Mary, and gobby Saffy with a heart of gold. Fallon has been in a relationship with popular comedian Ricky Gervais since 1982, after they met while studying together at the University College London. Jane's skillful use of razor sharp dialogue really brings every character to life, and makes the scenes so vivid.The storyline is based around 3 middle aged women dating the same man who as they find out, is a con man. I kept reading because I was mildly interested to see how it would all turn out, but I can't honestly say I enjoyed it. Jane Fallon is an English producer and novelist, most famous for her work on popular series Teachers, 20 Things To Do Before You're 30, Eastenders and This Life. However, slightly disappointed as I would have liked the ‘villain’ to experience a lot more hardship, but revenge definitely wasn’t what this book wanted to focus on. Uiteindelijk leert ze hem kort daarna 'spontaan' in het echt kennen, zonder dat hij weet dat ze al eerder met elkaar op de datingapp hebben gesproken.

I loved the way the friendship blossomed between him and Joni but I understood the focus was on the friendship between the three wronged women. That made the first third of the book feel quite slow to me because it was essentially setting the scene of Joni’s life and her relationship with Ant. When happily divorced Joni finds Ant via a dating app, neither is entirely honest about who they are. Just a bunch of bored housewives who got dumped or widowed and who didn’t have any kind of personality other than their men and their men’s money because none of them had lives until their swindler. When happily divorced Joni is reluctantly talked into joining a dating app, and she is surprised to quickly hit it off with Ant.

The topics in this book were lonely women, online con artists, friendships, alcoholism, gullible women etc. Joni decides to try online dating after her being divorced, losing her best friend, and her daughter moving to Manchester. I’ve read all of the British author’s novels and love her or hate her she certainly makes an impact in the book world with her clever, contemporary, disloyalty fiction and I simply love them.