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  • Published: 3 July 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141918105
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
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Wife in the North




One wife, mother and blogger's determined attempts to make some friends, find a decent cup of coffee and build a new life in the North

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 ...

  • Published: 3 July 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141918105
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
Categories:

About the author

Judith O'Reilly

Judith O'Reilly, a journalist and mother of three children, was persuaded to move from London to Northumberland by her husband in 2005. She started a blog, wifeinthenorth.com, in November 2006, which quickly picked up fans around the world with its witty tales of family and country life.

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Praise for Wife in the North

I howled with laughter, tears of recognition at every bloody page. My only problem with this book was choosing who to pass it on to first.

Jenny Colgan, author of, Amanda's Wedding