Lucy Springer Gets Even

Never mind if your boss wears Prada or your relationship is so dire you need to leave your man to eat, pray and love.

Lucy Springer has a real reason to want to turn her life around. In fact, she has a whole list of them.

Lucy Springer thinks she's got it tough. She's living through renovation hell, her two kids seem more challenging than ever, and her once successful acting career has been reduced to the odd commercial.

Then Max, her husband, absconds to Bali with an unknown companion and things go from bad to disastrous.

From her man who leaves her for a younger, blonder woman, to her DOA acting career, Lucy's life is going pear-shaped.

Newly alone, Lucy ploughs through much of her ex's prized Grange Hermitage before deciding it's time to take control and get on with things!

Witty, savvy and laugh-out-loud funny, Lucy Springer Gets Even is about triumphing over adversity and following your dreams.

But Lucy doesn't give up easily. Juggling increasingly chaotic building dramas, bewildered children, her crazy best friend-slash-agent Gloria, her ever helpful' mother and chasing after Max, Lucy Springer is determined to get her life onto an even keel and more.

Told with a light touch and great verve, this is the genuinely funny story of sixty days in the tumultuous life of ex-actor cum housewife and mother of two, Lucy Springer as she comes to terms with the sudden departure of her husband, Max, in the middle of major renovations.

Lisa Heidke studied journalism at Queensland University, before working in book and magazine publishing. In 2006, Lisa's This Wife's Life was shortlisted for the Varuan/Harper Collins Manuscript Awards and then in 2007, Lucy Springer Gets Even was shortlisted.

Lucy Springer Gets Even
Allen and Unwin
Author: Lisa Heidke
Price: $23.95