Polly Williams – författare

From the author of THE RISE AND FALL OF A YUMMY MUMMY comes IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER -a funny, poignant page-turner about family dysfunctions, coming of age and forgiving your mother. ''Williams writes with deadly, witty accuracy about modern life'' Sophie Kinsella Nell Stockdale is in a pretty good place, managing to combine a full-on career with single motherhood; a lovely flat, great girlfriends, and a sexy younger man on the scene. But her mother is very ill. Will she return to the family''s large, damp Cornish farmhouse to care for her? Normally Nell keeps her family at arm''s length. Her sister is engaged to Nell''s ex big love, and she has never got on with her eccentric, distant mother. But something powerful is pulling her back to Cornwall...

In THE ANGEL AT No. 33 bestselling author POLLY WILLIAMS offers a heartbreaking novel of grief, the loneliness of a widower - and the healing love of a son. ''Bittersweet and poignant'' Jojo Moyes. ''Funny, touching, loved it'' Jenny ColganAm I dead? I don''t feel dead...'' Sophie cannot leave the people she loves. Her husband, Ollie - a man who once watered a houseplant for a year before realising it was plastic - is lost without her. Their son Freddie is so little. And her friend Jenny? There''s something she desperately needs to know before it''s too late. Some love stories never end.

From Polly Williams, the bestselling author of THE RISE AND FALL OF A YUMMY MUMMY comes a startling, honest novel of love, marriage - and untidiness.Sadie Drew thinks she must be the world''s worst wife. She only needs to walk into a room to make it untidy. She wears flannel pyjamas in bed. Furry things breed in her fridge. But she''s a busy working mother not a wifebot and husband Tom loves her as she is. Until he gets a hot new job and things change. There are alpha-wives to entertain. Nuclear rows. Unsettling secrets. And the smell of another woman''s perfume on his suit. Sadie risks losing everything if she can''t transform herself into the perfect wife... But what is a perfect wife anyway?

She''s on a roll. A glamorous job at a glossy magazine. A home of her own. A cute live-in boyfriend. Annie Rafferty has worked damn hard for all of it. If demands are made, she delivers. If people need her, she''s there. And if she suspects something is missing? Well, she ignores it. But cracks start to appear. Her boyfriend quits his job and leaves Annie paying the bills. Work descends into a handbags-at-dawn struggle for survival, and there''s a new exec in the office - rude, opinionated but strangely attractive - questioning exactly what she''s trying to prove. As Annie discovers her true desires, her meticulously planned life begins to unravel and darker, unexpected forces pull things in a shocking new direction . . .

For every mum who has trodden on one plastic brick too many, or looked at her phone instead of lovingly recording her little one''s every moment, or poured a large wine because it''s four o''clock on Friday. If you''ve ever shared a post from the Unmumsy Mum or giggled at Hurrah for Gin, this book is for you. Amy Crane is in crisis. Six months after the birth of her baby, Amy still looks pregnant and can''t remember the last time she had a wax, or an orgasm. Motherhood is stirring up disturbing questions about her own childhood. And she suspects her boyfriend is cheating. Enter Alice, yummy mummy superior, on a mission to transform Amy''s body, and love life. As Amy swaps breast pads for Botox and climbs out of a vortex of self-doubt, her libido awakens from its long nap and things get rather more complicated ...A wonderfully well-written, funny and sharp novel about the trials of playing hip happy families and the contradictions at the heart of modern motherhood.