Women of a Dangerous Age

Women of a Dangerous Age
Fanny Blake

Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Buchan and Katie Fforde, this is a warm novel about women, relationships and why it’s never too late to change.Lou is married to a man who no longer loves her. It’s time to move on, to begin a new business venture and to start her life over.To celebrate her new-found freedom, she travels to India, where, in front of the Taj Mahal, she befriends Ali after taking each other’s photographs on ‘that’ bench.Ali is a serial mistress. But when she returns home, she discovers her latest lover is not the man she took him for. She too needs a new beginning.As Lou and Ali put their pasts behind them, they start to discover new possibilities for life and for love, until the shocking realisation that they have far more in common than they thought.

Fanny Blake

Women of a Dangerous Age

Dedication

To Robin, Matt, Nick and Spike

Contents

Cover (#u4497ab0a-8c10-558a-87ce-54dd29a79680)

Title Page

Dedication

1

‘You’re going to India?’ Fiona had sounded as if Lou…

2

Delhi airport was teeming with people. Lou’s suitcase felt heavy…

3

The unearthly flickering light of the tiny TV screens set…

4

Lou’s eyes felt as if they’d been forcibly removed, sandpapered…

5

Standing in her walk-in closet, Ali looked around her. Everything…

6

Arriving at the studio the following morning, Ali immediately saw…

7

The pub was busy with early-evening drinkers as Lou pushed…

8

When she woke the next morning, Lou’s head seemed to…

9

The Tube was jammed. People pressed up against one another,…

10

‘How could you have ended up on the same holiday…

11

By the time Lou arrived, the three rooms in the…

12

Beyond the shutters, the night was dark. Reflected back in…

13

As the day drew to a close, the two women…

14

Ali tugged harder. The retractable ladder didn’t move. Another even…

15

Ali was already fifteen minutes late. She pushed through the…

16

Under a washed-out blue sky, a gust of wind lifted…

17

Ten o’clock in the morning and Don and Ali were…

18

The fire was lit, the salad made and the smell…

19

They had almost completed their first lap of the park…

20

Lou clasped her coat to her as the wind screamed…