The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Ruth Patchett has it all: a large, warty body, a standard suburban home, a couple of unruly children, a dog, a cat and a guinea pig. She also has Bobbo, her unfaithful accountant husband who resents her very existence. Bobbo wants, and is wanted by, romance novelist Mary Fisher, who lives in a lighthouse by the sea. When Bobo leaves Ruth for Mary, Ruth decides that Mary doesn't know the first thing about love, and she's gonna teach her.
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Ruth Patchett has it all: a large, warty body, a standard suburban home, a couple of unruly children, a dog, a cat and a guinea pig. She also has Bobbo, her unfaithful accountant husband who resents her very existence. Bobbo wants, and is wanted by, romance novelist Mary Fisher, who lives in a lighthouse by the sea. When Bobo leaves Ruth for Mary, Ruth decides that Mary doesn't know the first thing about love, and she's gonna teach her.
1.Part 1
08-10-198658mClumsy, put-upon Ruth Patchett leads a drudge's life with her two bratty children Nicola and Andy, and her neglectful accountant husband Bobbo. When Bobbo starts an affair with his...
2.Part 2
15-10-198658mWhilst Mary and Bobbo find it tough going looking after the kids, Ruth, calling herself Lily Latimer, becomes a care assistant at the home where Mary's mother lives. Having befrien...
3.Part 3
22-10-198658mLooking increasingly more elegant and visiting Harley Street with a view to plastic surgery, Ruth opens her secretarial agency Vista Rose with Hopkins. By chance, Bobbo's firm requ...
4.Part 4
29-10-198658mHer romance in tatters, Mary turns for help to lonely, well-meaning Catholic priest Father Ferguson. She is not to know that Ruth, having given Vista Rose over to Hopkins, has inst...
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