Mad About The Boy / Maggie Alderson

‘We were the perfect couple. Ha bloody ha’ A year after Antonia and Hugo move to Australia with their young son Tom, everything is going terribly well. The weather’s fantastic, they have a lovely house, they're very popular – and then Hugo tells Antonia he’s gay and has a boyfriend ... Alone in her adopted home of Sydney, with no friends save for six-year-old Tom and a packet of chocolate biscuits, Ant soon finds that an attractive single woman is not nearly so welcome on the champagne social scene as the wife of a glamorous English aristocrat. It's only the arrival of Hugo’s outrageous lavender-haired uncle Percy that lifts Ant out of her depression and sends her to the gym – to combat the lardy thighs comfort eating has given her.