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This wonderfully witty and heart-warming series about life-long female friendship continues! Meet Helen. Back from her Cyprus holiday, feeling like a new woman, she's determined to reclaim her future and enjoy the second half of life! But just as the freedom of divorce is within her grasp, an unexpected surprise enters her life. Meet Caro. At fifty, wealthy and successful, she is on the verge of fulfilling what had seemed an impossible dream. Meet Kay. Fighting to find some time for herself, she is wracked with guilt at the decisions she must make on behalf of her elderly parents.

Meet Helen. She worries that the walls are closing in. With her children grown and her selfish husband away again, she's full of regrets at not taking the exciting paths she dreamed about in her youth. So when the chance of a last-minute holiday to Cyprus with her two best friends is offered, she grabs it.

The third gripping instalment of a wonderfully witty and brutally honest story of female friendship. Meet Helen In shock over Kay’s diagnosis, and still wounded after her blowout fight with Caro, she is lost without the comfort of their familiar friendship dynamic. Meet Caro Recovering from tragedy and resigned to a life of solitude, she is struggling to see the opportunity for happiness that has so unexpectedly arrived. Meet Kay Facing a terrifying future, she is consumed by one thought only. How to do the best for her son, while she still can.

A divorce, a wedding, and a looming retirement. Filled with big dreams, can this trio of fiftysomethings evade disaster and capture fulfilment?

Party-planner, Jo Swainson takes pride in her optimistic outlook. Nearly fifty, she has come to terms with both her childlessness and the estrangement from her cold mother, Bobbi. But after being blindsided by Bobbi’s sudden dementia diagnosis, she’s devastated when her husband announces that he’s leaving to start a family with another.

Sandwiched between the needs of her elderly mother and her own family, Annie barely has time for a quick swim, let alone a leisurely chat about a long neglected tea set. But as the story unfolds, the modern world seems to fall away along with her mother's dementia, and forgotten family histories are revealed.

Meryem has learned to look out for number one. Abducted as a teenager from England to Turkey, thirty years later she is finally free to live life on her own terms. She is divorced and wealthy, working a lucrative job in Dubai, when a whispered confession from her dying father turns her world upside down, and sets her on a path to discover the truth. The first step is a return to London, and her childhood friends, Alma and Sammy, with whom she embarks upon an impromptu 80s weekend.