Charlene Allcott 
Single Mum’s Wish List 

————————–‘One of the freshest, funniest, most exciting new voices I ve read for a long time’ JANE FALLON’Fresh and funny and REAL … Martha really spoke to me. She will steal everyone’s heart!’ VERONICA HENRY’Beautifully written and emotionally intelligent. I rooted for Martha from the start.’ Daily Mail Meet Martha Ross. She dreams of being a singer, but she s been working in a call centre for far too long. She s separating from her husband, the father of her son. And she s moving back home to her parents as a single mum, toddler in tow.Life has thrown her a few lemons . . . but Martha intends to make a gin and tonic. It s time to become the woman she s always wanted to be. And at least her mum s on hand to provide childcare and ample motherly judgement, of course.Soon Martha realises that in order to find lasting love and fulfilment, she needs to find herself first . . . But her attempts at reinvention from writing a definitive wish list of everything she wants in a new man, to half-marathons, business plans and meditation retreats tend to go awry in the most surprising of ways . . . A warm, vibrant and painfully funny novel for fans of Why Mummy Drinks, Fiona Gibson and Lucy Vine. *Also published as The Reinvention of Martha Ross*