“Sometimes life can be bittersweet … So when life throws you a lemon, cut a slice and add a G&T.”
From one of the best-selling authors, Gibson’s novel promises laughter, fun and drama. For a hilarious pick me up, When Life Gives You Lemons does exactly that.
Fiona Gibson, a Yorkshire lass by birth, started work at seventeen for the teenage magazine Jackie before moving down to London as a magazine journalist in her twenties. Now living in Glasgow with her husband Jimmy and their three children, she enjoys writing her romantic comedy novels, alongside going for a run with her rescue collie cross, Jack.
Written in a diary form, Viv, the main character and first-person narrator, amusingly describes her trials as a middle-aged woman going through the menopause. Even though her husband Andy, “dashing Doctor Flint”, is a doctor, he is unsympathetic and refuses to discuss her symptoms. As Viv says, “For a man, the menopause is a breeze.”
Andy’s mid-life crisis then becomes Viv’s problem. He is having an affair with his colleague, a younger, slimmer woman – the opposite of Viv. Divorced and single, determined not to wallow in self-pity, is it time for Viv to put herself first?
Uplifting and optimistic, Fiona Gibson’s novel will have you laughing out loud – the real tonic we all need in our lives from time to time.
