A novel about starting life over in the middle and ending up better than ever.Great husband, great job, great friends—life in the middle is just about perfect. But sometimes decisions made in the distant past have a very long reach. When Rose Lloyd's husband announces he's leaving, Rose loses it all . . . husband, job, and best friend—her whole, perfect middle-aged life.Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, already a bestseller in the United Kingdom, flips the usual midlife crisis tale upside down. Rose rejects the vengeful, wronged wife routine in favor of baking up to that fork in the road she faced twenty years ago. Then she had to choose between two very different lives. Now she has a chance to take the other path to find out where it leads. The result: the story of a middle-aged woman spurned becomes a celebration of independence and self-fulfillment.Elizabeth Buchan draws true-to-life characters that could be friends, neighbors, even yourself. In her novel, Buchan offers up an unexpected twist on the story of relationships, love, betrayal, and "happily ever after."

Original material © 2003 Elizabeth Buchan. Published by arrangement with Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc.

ELIZABETH BUCHAN is the bestselling author of several books. At home in London, where she lives with her husband and two children, she is a frequent reviewer for national newspapers in the U.K. and the U.S.