This Way Up by Paige Nick

Description

Stella felt sick to her stomach. How could her marriage be over? She did the maths, counting it out on her fingertips – it was only eight hundred and sixty-four hours old. She hadn’t even finished writing the thank-you cards yet…

Stella de Villiers doesn’t know which way is up. Rewind forty-eight hours and she has the perfect life. Married to a great guy. A super-supportive family around her. Awesome friends. In fact, the only fly in her ointment is that her job is, well, just a bit crap.

As sex column aunt Dr Dee she has to deal with a slew of correspondence about the ickiest of things when all she really wants is to be taken seriously as a journalist. And then, just when it seems like things can’t get any worse on the work front, Stella’s dream job – features writer – is given to the über-cool Yolanda. Upset and disappointed, Stella calls her husband Max to tell him what’s happened, but instead she tells a small untruth – just a little white lie – that slowly but surely unravels her whole perfect universe.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, Poppy is on a trip of a lifetime with her best friend Buck. America, India, Holland, Germany, France – for a twenty-one-year-old Capetonian who’s never been further than Hermanus it’s a whole new world. But will Poppy find more than she bargains for on her travels?