Author(s): Catherine Alliott

Fiction

'Well. What could I say? If he was smitten then I could be too, and I sank back into the whole cosy relationship with a monumental sigh of relief. I didn`t have to try too hard, didn`t have to be too witty, too amusing, too beautiful... It was like landing on a feather mattress after all those years of being Out There.'

Two years down the line, however, Rosie`s beginning to think that `cosy` isn`t all it`s cracked up to be. Bridge parties have never really been her thing, and it would be nice to feel beautiful just once in a while. Enough is enough. It`s time to get her life back.