Life Skills

A combination of overwork and lack of sleep propels Julia Fairfax into becoming engaged to a golf-playing wine buff called Oscar. But when she realises that she has fonder feelings for his adorable Labrador than for Oscar she ditches her fiancé and jacks in her job deciding to revolutionise her life. Her new career as a cook on a pair of hotel boats is certainly a departure and teaches her more about life than how to get through a lock. But even afloat Julia's past catches up with her. Not only must she contend with the persistent Oscar (not to mention his frightful mother and her own mother's determined matchmaking) but also the arrival of her childhood enemy the enigmatic Fergus Grindley…