Author(s): Clare Dowling

Fiction

Emily is expecting. She is 34 weeks pregnant, her ankles are swollen, her hair is falling out and she's worried about the baby. Now she's been passed over for partnership in the firm of solicitors where she puts in more than 48 hours a week selling boggy bits of farmland. And if that weren't enough it looks as if her arty husband, the piano-playing Conor, may have been running his fingers over more than the ivories while on tour in Germany. Depressed, demoted and about to deliver, Emily finally realises that inside every good girl, there's a bad one waiting to get out... Clare Dowling was born in Kilkenny in 1968. She trained as an actress and has worked in theatre, film and radio. She began writing for theatre in 1992 and has had five stage plays produced in Dublin. Her award-winning half-hour film The Big O was produced in 1995, and she is the co-author of a second short film, The Very Stuff, produced in 1996. She has had drama and children's fiction published, and her play The Marlboro Man is included in an anthology of new Irish writers. She co-writes a weekly children's fiction series on the Internet and she is currently a scriptwriter on Ireland's top soap, Fair City. She lives in Dublin and is married with a son. Paperback (A-Format)