Mrs. Fytton’s Country Life

Author: Mavis Cheek

Angela Fytton — wonderwife and supermother — has been unceremoniously dumped by her husband. Like many a good wife before her, she has been replaced for a younger model. Now, divorced but determined, she rediscovers the iron in her soul and decides to fight. She moves to the country, leaving her entirely selfish teenage children with their father and his sweet new bride,….Read More

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