That Summer in Ischia by Penny Feeny Books In Order

June 2018 : UK Paperback

May 2012 : UK Paperback

May 2011 : UK Paperback

April 2015 : USA Audio edition

April 2015 : Australia Audio edition

April 2015 : Canada Audio edition

April 2015 : UK Audio edition

Novels

  1. The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy (2006)
  2. A Bad Bride’s Tale (2007)
  3. The World’s Worst Wife (2008)
  4. A Good Girl Comes Undone (2008)
  5. How to be Married (2010)
  6. It Happened One Summer (2011)
  7. The Angel at No. 33 (2011)
  8. Husband, Missing (2013)

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That Summer in Ischia by Penny Feeny Books Overview

The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy

In the tradition of Little Earthquakes, Babyville and I Don’t Know How She Does It: the effervescent, canny, and downright delightful debut of Polly Williams, a spirited new voice in women’s fiction.

Amy Crane’s daughter, the exquisite and sweet tempered Evie, is six months old. any Amy who’s trying to decide whether to resume her high pressure job in PR adores her. But these days, Amy doesn’t exactly adore herself.

Even worse, the whole time she’s feeling invisible and about as attractive as a barnyard animal, Amy suspects that Evie’s father, Joe, is having an affair. Then Amy meets Alice, who seems to have this mommy thing down: She’s single girl slender, for one thing, with groomed eyebrows, a smooth forehead, and killer clothes. Plus she has a sex life. In short, she’s a Yummy Mummy, one of a new breed who manage to make motherhood look positively sexy. Under Alice’s tutelage, Amy discovers that she’s got some yumminess of her own. Joe takes notice, as does her handsome Pilates instructor. But once Amy’s libido awakens from its extended slumber, a whole new set of problems develops.

Filled with acute perceptions of the challenges faced by new moms, as well as the uniquely terrifying landscape of new motherhood, The Yummy Mummy is as endearing and as refreshing as a baby who sleeps through the night.

A Bad Bride’s Tale

‘British author Polly Williams uses a large cast of characters, whose stories crisscross, to weave a vivid tale of second chances and finding true love.’
USA Today

‘Williams’s infectious romp shows what happens just before a woman surrenders to respectable adulthood. The novel packs a lot of laughs and delivers a snazzy payoff in the last chapter. Take this one to the beach.’
Publishers Weekly

‘This engaging second effort from Williams is packed with juicy twists of fate and karmic encounters. Shunning the traditional boy meets girl and lives happily every after formula, Williams treats readers to second chances and hard won successes on the battlefields of love.’
Kirkus Reviews

Right time. Right dress. Right man?

The author of The Yummy Mummy returns with a sparkling, hilarious look at what happens when you meet the wrong man at the right time.

Two weeks before her wedding, Stevie Jonson, a successful graphic designer in her mid thirties, has got serious jitters. Is she finally growing up, or compromising horribly? In love or in denial? Her teenage crush aka The One That Got Away is back in town, a reminder of everything her fianc isn’t, and that niggling little voice in her head is getting louder all the time.

By the time Stevie steps into her 1930s vintage wedding dress for the last fitting, her life is coming apart at the seams. A Bad Bride’s Tale is a grown up love story about marrying, mating, compromising…
and how love doesn’t have a timetable.

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