If May, Sally and Harriet didn't need the money so badly, they definitely wouldn't be working for Slimeball Slater at Quality Cleaners. So when they discover it's Slimeball taking them to the cleaners, they decide to set up their own business - and that's when things really start to take off.

Working for themselves gives them the freedom and independence they've been longing for. May can afford the mooring fees for her beloved narrowboat; Harriet discovers a true gift for painting and Sally's dream of a place of her own is fast becoming reality. But is it too much, having made such a success of their working lives, to expect similar success in their romantic ones?

“Joanna Trollope crossed with Tom Sharpe”

Mail on Sunday

“The romance fizzes along with good humour and is a good, fat, summery read”

Sunday Mirror

“Old-fashioned romance of the best sort…funny, comforting”

Sunday Times