Muddy Waters: a funny, warm and entertaining novel that will leave you smiling from ear to ear!

Judy Astley

jun 2011 · Random House

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Perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Milly Johnson and Trisha Ashley, this is a story full of wry laughs and shrewd insight into friendship and family from bestselling author Judy Astley.

'Wickedly funny... A thoroughly entertaining romp best enjoyed when you're on a sun lounger with a glass of Pimm's to hand' - DAILY MAIL

'Frothy fun from an author worth noting' - DAILY EXPRESS

'This deliciously funny novel had me laughing out loud' - WOMAN AND HOME

'Highly entertaining with dry humor and hilarious situations' -- ***** Reader review

'Perfect for summer, Judy's books show a real passion for writing' -- ***** Reader review

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FRIENDS SHARE EVERYTHING... DON'T THEY?

Stella works as an agony aunt for a teenage magazine. She lives on Pansy Island, a self-consciously arty community on the Thames, where her husband Adrian writes erotic novels in a summerhouse by the river, while her two teenage children prepare themselves for adult life in various ways not necessarily recommended in the pages of their mother's advice columns.

Stella's friends assume that she has no problems of her own, and shamelessly come to her for the advice she dishes up for a living on the magazine; Stella, however, finds herself with a problem she cannot handle when Abigail, her rich and glamorous friend from university, comes to stay.

Abigail has been deserted by her husband, and has decided that Stella's life, and more particularly Stella's husband will fill the gap nicely...

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Judy Astley was frequently told off for day-dreaming at her drearily traditional school but has found it to be the ideal training for becoming a writer. There were several false-starts to her career: secretary at an all-male Oxford college (sacked for undisclosable reasons), at an airline (decided, after a crash and a hijacking, that she was safer elsewhere) and as a dress designer (quit before anyone noticed she was adapting Vogue patterns). She spent some years as a parent and as a painter before sensing that the day was approaching when she'd have to go out and get a Proper Job. With a nagging certainty that she was temperamentally unemployable, and desperate to avoid office coffee, having to wear tights every day and missing out on sunny days on Cornish beaches with her daughters, she wrote her first novel, Just for the Summer. She has now had eleven novels published by Black Swan.