Charity Walton seems to have everything she could want: a husband, four children, a lovely house in London, and a successful career as a sociologist. Then she meets Mark Carleton, the incoming Head of the Sociology Department where she works: clever,...
By the author of "The Sociology of Housework", "From Here to Maternity", and "Taking It Like a Woman", this novel is set a few years into the future, when Thatcherism has made further inroads into health provision and the welfare state. It centres ar...
When Crispin and his family set out for a package tour in Turkey, he is hoping for a rest and a suntan. Then he meets Meg, in her golden bikini. Package tours, it transpires, are not as simple and relaxing as they seem, and the travellers find that m...
In a distinguished career lasting nearly sixty years, Ann Oakley has produced trail-blazing publications that span the fiction - non-fiction divide including The Men's Room, made into a BBC TV series with Bill Nighy.This novel is timely, set in the p...