Samantha Connors, 38, is a woman of the world. Well, that's how she looks on paper: ex-model, magazine columnist, author, mother of one. But she is not, it seems, a woman in control of her life. One evening she turns on the television and comes face to face with an old fling, Vince Bradley - the father of her 19-year-old daughter, Millie - whom she's not seen for nineteen years. When Vince - once a model, then a pig farmer and now a Governor - announces his intention to run for the U.S Presidency - flaunting his capped dentures on the late night news - Sam's life is about to change forever.In between penning pithy pieces for a woman's magazine on the daily dilemmas of the modern woman, writing a novel based on her columns, and being struck down by what can only be described as a 30-Something Malaise, Sam realises she must confront her biggest challenge yet: how to tell her daughter who her father is.Factor in her gay personal trainer, Martin; girlfriends-stylist, Gina, and dreamy vintage-clothes shop owner, Stella, who have their own ideas of how she should live her life; antics with the anti-genetic engineering group P.A.G.E in which she ends up spending a night in a police cell; an irrational fear of fellow journalists; a run-in with famous food critic, Henry Royston-Phipps, who knows how to make a woman on a diet drool - and you have a woman headed for breakdown. Unless she gets a grip on life and does what she should have done years ago.Jane Riley, winner of the Kingake Unpublished Author competition in the Women's fiction genre, has written a racy and very readable first novel. Expect more from this talented writer!