The WiltHenry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his massive wife, Eva, is given to boundless and unpredictable fits of enthusiasm for transcendental meditation, yoga or the trampoline. But if Wilt can do nothing about

A girl known only as Red

juggling otters

than she could ever have expected

But before Steve Jay has even reached the remote clinic

even as Dahlia's seductive whispers linger in her ears

seemed to have different ideas

We love them as members of the family

Sadie Jones has produced a passionate

A slightly light hearted look at the old boy network and similar loose alliances that underpin society

and Prize Women deserves a huge readership

A special feature of this edition is the bespoke set of playing cards

and the chemistry between her characters is swoon worthy' ELIZABETH LIM