NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE (INGEN RÖK UTAN ELD)

Warm, witty and painfully honest, the Contrary Mary series is feelgood with a feel-bad edge, emotionally fearless six-book series about starting over when you are old enough to know better, and young enough to do it anyway. A journey through marriage, grief, divorce, desire, revenge and reinvention, following one deeply imperfect woman as she learns that changing your life can be every bit as messy as staying put.

Maria has done everything right. So why does her life feel so wrong?

Trapped in a loveless marriage and a life that has slowly shrunk to little more than routine and obligation, Maria can no longer ignore the feeling that something is missing. When her mother’s health begins to deteriorate and an unexpected new friend enters her life, Maria is forced to confront everything she has spent years avoiding.

No Smoke Without Fire is the first instalment in Lena Koppel’s women’s fiction series Contrary Mary. Warm, perceptive and humorous, it is a story about finding the courage to take an honest look at the life you are living – and perhaps, just perhaps, daring to change it.

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