title: Love In The Afternoon
author: Cooke, Bruce
description: Fighting depression, loneliness and self-loathing after her abusive womanizing husband dies, fifty-year old Joanne Montgomery meets fifty-three year old Richard Collins who re-ignites her life. They fall in love but Joanne’s daughter, Becky, who thought of her father as a saint is aghast that Joanne would even consider dating another man, especially a larrikin like Ritchie. Just as they overcome the resentment, Ritchie’s gold digging ex-wife arrives on the scene after being thrown out by her lover. She wants back into Ritchie’s life and will go to any lengths to split them up. When she convinces Joanne that she is back sleeping with Ritchie, Joanne’s world comes to an end, as she feels betrayed once again. But Ritchie won’t let a lie destroy the happiness he has found and fights to get Joanne back.