Mad About The Boy

Maggie Alderson

Penguin Books Limited, Sep 25, 2003 - Fiction - 416 pages

'Some of my best friends are homosexuals. I just didn't expect my husband to be one too.'
A year after Antonia and Hugh move to Australia with their 4 year old son Tom, everything is going terribly well. They have a lovely house, they're very popular - and then Hugh tells Antonia he is gay and has a boyfriend ...
It's only the arrival of Ant's outrageous lavender-haired uncle Percy that lifts her out of her depression and sends her off to the gym - to combat the lardy thighs her comfort eating has given her - where she meets the mysterious James, and falls head over heels in lust.
Soon Ant finds she's over Hugo - but by then her problems are only just beginning ...

About the author

Maggie Alderson has worked on nine magazines and currently has a weekly column in the Times. She lived in Australia for 8 years, returning here in 2001. Her first novel, PANTS ON FIRE was a UK bestseller, and she was a co-editor of the charity anthology BIG NIGHT OUT. She is married with a baby daughter and moves a lot.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mad About The Boy
• Author: Maggie Alderson
• Publisher: Penguin Books Limited, 2003
• ISBN: 0141906677, 9780141906676
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Women