Jane Turley

The Changing Room: a British Comedy of Love, Loss and Laughter Jane Turley First edition

"Today, I am in the changing room of my life and tomorrow, win or lose, I'll move forward a stronger and wiser woman." Sandy Lovett's confused mother and chaotic life are having an effect on her waistline. She knows she needs to change her life but doesn't know how until she buys a risqué dress which sets in motion a sequence of life-changing events. After years as a mother, carer and full-time employee, Sandy quits her job and places her mother in a care home, and life seems on the up. But disaster is never far away for the hapless Sandy as her mother?s obsessions continue to wreak havoc and her husband?s business begins to fail. Short of cash and needing a flexible job, Sandy joins a sex-chat service. At The Beaver Club Sandy discovers a talent for selling telephone sex - a skill she later regrets when she meets unscrupulous local politician and prospective MP, Trewin Thackeray. The Changing Room is a comedy-drama for all those whose glass is half-full. Preferably with gin and a big fat cherry! Jane Turley has written for the BBC, the literary magazine The View From Here and blogs at The Witty Ways of a Wayward Wife. She is the author of the short story collection A Modern Life. The Changing Room is her début novel.