Prissy Vickers is not Dead Yet

FUNNY AND HEARTWARMING, PRISSY VICKERS IS THE STORY OF A (NOT QUITE OVER THE HILL) WOMAN COMING TO TERMS WITH LIFE ON HER OWN. FANS OF JILL MANSELL AND HELEN FIELDING WILL LOVE THIS BOOK!

A GENTLE LOVE STORY, PERFECT TO SNUGGLE UP WITH ON A COLD WINTERS EVENING!

My name is Prissy Vickers and I am officially a danger to myself…or at least that is what one softly spoken nurse told me as a reason for keeping me in hospital over-night. Look all I did was try to end my life, I wasn’t intending to annoy or upset anyone! Obviously it all went wrong and I had to slope home with my tale between my legs. My only source of comfort was that no one knew anything about it and I knew I wouldn’t make the attempt again (or at least if I did, I would make sure the tablets I took were something a bit more lethal than a bottle of ancient sweeteners!) and that I had, on the advice of the hospital therapist, decided to write a journal which was something that I was actually looking forward to.

What I didn’t realise until later however, was that everyone and their cat knew about my pathetic attempt at suicide! And (even worse than that) they had all decided they knew how to fix me!

First there was the “Cats in Need” charity shop, which my best friend Desi volunteered me for (because I needed to get out of the house and stop moping around).

Then there was the six month subscription to a dating website that my other so called “friends” gifted me, (because I needed to find someone new to love).

And of course we can’t forget my Mum, who is convinced that the chap who is trying to sell her the disgustingly over- priced “Wangerlow-deluxe” vacuum cleaner, is the perfect man for me!

Add to the mix my dotty one hundred year old neighbour Jane and her flatulent old Jack Russell Terrier Mr Munchy. The dashing, but incredibly shallow, James Pond, and the kind, but teeth grittingly irritating Bob from the charity shop, and you can see that even if I had felt like killing myself again, I simply didn’t have the time!