Good Husband Material

Good Husband Material
Trisha Ashley

Another warm, wise and witty offering from Sunday Times bestseller Trisha Ashley.James is everything Tish has ever wanted in a husband – she’s married a man who even her mother approves of. He’s handsome, dependable, and will make an excellent father – unlike Tish’s first love, the disreputable Fergal. Her teenage sweetheart abandoned her for a music career and now lives a typical celebrity lifestyle. Fergal broke her heart – James helped mend it.Now, they’ve bought a cottage in the country. The next step – kids and a lifetime of domestic bliss. Well, that’s the plan. And even if James has a slight tendency to view the village pub as a second home, their relationship is still in pretty good shape after seven years of marriage. So why is marriage to Mr Right making her long for Mr Wrong?

TRISHA ASHLEY

Good Husband Material

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First published in Great Britain by Judy Piatkus (Publishers) Ltd in 2000

This edition published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2013

Copyright © Trisha Ashley 2000

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Source ISBN: 9781847562814

Ebook Edition © March 2013 ISBN: 9780007494088

Version: 2014-07-25

Dedication

For Mary Turner Long, with love.

Table of Contents

Cover (#ubc79e2a8-466d-5bc2-9f2d-a1f474c1bf0f)

Title Page (#u983ea10e-1eb5-50b4-b6b8-9755443fe23c)

Copyright (#u05fb40e9-6451-50f9-a649-21d05d5db1be)

Dedication (#ulink_52116e06-ad6a-55c3-bceb-7a31d060e7d3)

Prologue (#u2dc6b1e7-3d0c-513b-aa60-5035378a24f4)

Chapter 1: A Dream of a Man (#ua789ce81-f8cc-5e91-b3df-9e2ca0dad3a2)

Chapter 2: Home, James (#ude0d916a-421a-5b5b-ae93-598f3c2cdc91)

Chapter 3: Painted Out (#u2b14f518-3ad0-5264-a63f-f7f8583fe7ec)

Chapter 4: Wild in the Country (#ue926d6b2-517b-5ff4-9fc8-9a6399498a5e)

Chapter 5: The Bourgeois Bitch (#u6fd4cb93-17c3-5b46-a6dc-ae94fdc46a9d)

Chapter 6: The Posy Profligate (#u99a2b7bb-19e8-5585-8237-4fc12ef65097)

Chapter 7: Drained (#u6dfd89f0-6397-5494-8832-d89dfc6047b1)

Chapter 8: Busted Flush (#u9b68d781-6bef-5995-a92f-8ac205dd4105)

Chapter 9: Nutthill Nutria (#u5dbd889b-f587-57c5-80b9-c76ae1fee3ad)

Chapter 10: Just Award (#ub9fbb54d-b0d9-5c84-b5fe-955e6df2bed4)

Chapter 11: Nasty in the Woodshed (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12: Mayday! (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13: And the Beet Goes on (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14: In the Drink (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15: Brief Encounter (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16: Cat’s Paw (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17: A Fête Worse than Death (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18: Fencing (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19: One Big Ham (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 20: No Change (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21: Through a Glass, Darkly (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22: Bugged (#litres_trial_promo)