A good book!

At the weekend I read 'Alice Hartley's Happiness' by Philippa Gregory. I recommend it! Providing you find herbal therapy interesting and don't mind some sex. It's all very written very well. It's a sensual, provocative and interesting novel. I found I felt some sort of affinity with the eccentrically clothed, wild haired, voluptous, misunderstood Alice and her affinity with nature. 

She's a middle-aged woman (forty-two) in the prime of her life, her professor husband too caught up playing away with a student than giving his wife the sexual satisfaction she desires. He is tired of her and thinks her mad. She is frustrated with his lack of interest and views of women as inferior. 

She finds a way to escape and sets up a 'Growing Centre' which has garden aerobics, empowerment classes and sexual release sessions... as well as sloe gin baths and sex with a young lover. 

But that is not it all... some people cannot accept a free spirit, especially that of a statuesque beautiful sexual woman. 

All sounds very pleasant to me (minus lack of accepting)