Much better than I had anticipated. I thought it was going to be a quick, unchallenging chick-lit read. I was wrong. It is a roller coaster of emotion with you feeling all sorts for Julia - hate, admiration, excitement, confusion, despair and anxiety to mention a few. Julia is 36 years old; she has two young children and is in a marriage that she needs to escape. So she does. It begins as a joke to get her husband Paul to sit up and notice and then steam rolls into a plan that she has to see through. You won't necessarily like Julia, although you might see yourself in her.

The story could be cut short a little; by about 30 pages; which I know is not a lot but it is enough to prevent it from being a 4/5 and turning it into a 5/5. The blurb is brilliant, it doesn't reveal too much and consequently you have to read on to find out what actually happens to Julia. Does she get what she wants, or what she deserves?

Interesting plot, good characters, although I couldn't get a vivid picture of some of them and maybe this is something that is lost in translation. A surprisingly good read and an author I will seek out again. ( )