Product Description

Caitlan's life is not how she planned. Her health obsessed hubbie is more organic than orgasmic, her eight year old daughter wishes her mum was Britney Spears and her four year old son Frankie wants to be known as Daphne. On discovering her diary from 1984 Caitlan begins wondering what would have happened had she followed a different path and was still with her first love. As we dip in and out of the eighties via diary entries and memories we discover what changed Caitlan from fun loving teen to hard nosed cynic. Caitlan is also forced to confront her past and we are finally able to find the answer to the eternal question of 'what if?'

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #734147 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
'Sex and the City meets Fight Club in this thought-provoking yet hilarious novel.' -- Hartlepool Mail on SWEET FA 'It's witty, fun and easy to read - enjoy!' -- Telegraph & Argus (Bradford) on SWEET FA 'Siobhan Curham tells the tale in a funny, often moving and always sharply accurate style ... an entertaining read.' -- Bolton Evening News on SWEET FA 'Siobhan Curham draws on her experiences of being a teenager in the Eighties, in this book of cherished memories of fighting campaigns in fluorescent legwarmers. Her story focuses on a young woman's love affair during the 1984 miner's strike.' -- OK Magazine 'Uproarious tale of a group of women who refuse to come second to the beautiful game is a sassy, modern tale of football widows getting their revenge' -- Cosmopolitan on SWEET FA 'This amusing tale of four women being driven mad by their partners' obsession with football, and taking their revenge in a variety of ways, is irresistible.' -- Marie Claire on SWEET FA 'Girlie fun guaranteed to see off any World Cup fatigue.' -- Company on SWEET FA 'A tale with learning, coping, changing and making a stand very much at its centre. It's good' -- The Bookseller on SWEET FA 'Perfect beach-reading for anyone who is missing their favourite sitcom while on holiday.' -- Good Book Guide on SWEET FA

Good Book Guide on SWEET FA
'Perfect beach-reading for anyone who is missing their favourite sitcom while on holiday.'

The Bookseller on SWEET FA
'A tale with learning, coping, changing and making a stand very much at its centre. It's good'

Customer Reviews

Read this book, its great
This book starts as it means to go on, so make sure u have plenty time because when you begin to read it you cant put it down.
it looks back on a mother and wifes first love when she was just a teenager. it shows how, during all the miners trouble, she meets her first love, which eventually nds in tradegy which she blames herself for.
It has great descriptinos of the clothes, make up and things going on at the time which makes it seem more feasible and real.
it is funny and sad making it a very moving book.i actually laughed out loud at a few points and looked quite stupid to the people around me. i would recommend it to all book lovers. luv rachx

Frankie says Relaspe
My teenage years came flooding back.
I am buying this book for my best friend of over30 years,the early eighties were our stomping ground too!

Enjoyable but disrupted by inaccurate pop-culture references
I read this book very quickly, really into the story parts set in 1984 and 1985 (though the modern day parts aren't well realised in comparison). However I was really disappointed to be jerked out of the story on more than one occasion by details that hadn't been checked before they were put in as historical colour.

I am looking forward to reading more by Siobhan Curham though.