Bad Manors

by Lisa Armstrong (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2003

  $6.62

  Cat is the single mother of precocious 10-year-old Lily, and the only daughter of a middle-aged feminist style guru who is simultaneously appalled by her ideal-less job (management consultant) and lack of fashion sense. Cat thinks things might be looking up at work when hot new VP Toby takes her under his wing; his mentoring is starting to turn to something more personal when she is unexpectedly left a run-down naturopathic clinic in the depths of the country. What Cat doesn't know is that Sir Rodney, who left her the clinic, was her father. What she does know is that it's a challenge and an opportunity and her daughter and au pair really want her to take it. So she does, and in addition to the clinic inherits an extraordinary collection of eccentric guests, conspiracies and potential heartbreak!

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.45

  Unfortunately Butely is damper than the English channel, its patients tighter than a bad facelift and she has to share its ownership with a reclusive stranger who looks at Cat as if she were a particularly nasty strain of foot and mouth. But Cat can never resist a challenge, especially when Toby Marks, the world's Most Handsome Man, is the one offering it. And that's just the start of her problems.

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $10.42

  Struggling for air in a Darwinian shark pond at work and a house that is falling to pieces around her ears, single mother Cat McGinty dreams of a new job, a new home and a new life of rural bliss.

  Jess, her unpredictable, sexually hyperactive au pair and Lily, her ten- going on seventeen- year-old daughter would quite like to come with her.

  When Cat unexpectedly inherits a run down health farm in the glorious Dorset countryside, miles from memories of her feckless ex and the demands of her disapproving feminist mother, it seems their prayers have been answered.

  Unfortunately Butely is damper than the English channel, its patients tighter than a bad facelift and she has to share its ownership with a reclusive stranger who looks at Cat as if she were a particularly nasty strain of foot and mouth. But Cat can never resist a challenge, especially when Toby Marks, the world's Most Handsome Man, is the one offering it.

  And that's just the start of her problems.