When Rachel Buckley announces that she is going to get married, her best friends Yaslyn and Carrie Ann can't wait to give her a proper send-off. No second-rate male stripper in a smoky bar for Rachel though. The girls choose instead to take a 'hen week' in Turkey, in the all-inclusive surroundings of luxurious holiday resort. It should be the perfect trip. But all three girls are bringing along more than their luggage. While Rachel looks forward to her wedding day with excitement, Carrie Ann wonders why the pain of her abusive marriage didn't end when the decree nisi arrived and Yaslyn considers the possibility that she might never be ready to marry her patient fiance Magnus. Add unlimited free cocktails, rampant and a nasty dose of sunstroke and suddenly 'getting away from it all' comes dangerously close to 'going back to nothing'. Can three firm friendships survive just seven sunny days?

'Very funny, hugely feel-good and the perfect antidote for anyone who worries that the only career ladder they've achieved is a run in their tights' - Fiona Walker on Lizzie Jordan's Secret Life 'It's a great idea for a plot, and Manby's writing more than does it justice' - Marie Claire on Getting Personal 'A funny first novel...that's more realistic than Friends, cleaner than The Young Ones and not as frightening as Shallow Grave' - Daily Mail on Flatmates

Now in her late twenties, Chris Manby grew up in Gloucester and published her first short story in Just Seventeen magazine at the age of fourteen. She studied psychology at Oxford, and now writes full-time. As well as the novels under her own name, Chris has had several erotic novels published by Little Brown/X Libris under the pseudonym Stephanie Ash.