Stop the Clock - Alison Mercer

Meet Lucy, Tina and Natalie, twenty-something friends who are all negotiating the risky business of being grown-up.

Lucy knows exactly what she wants: her marriage to be a success, her children to be perfect, and to be the ultimate home-maker.

Tina knows what she wants too: her journalism career to take off and to see her name as a byline in a national newspaper... and the illicit affair she''s started leaves her free enough to follow her dreams.

Natalie just wants to be happy - happy with the boyfriend she''s dated since college, happy with the job she''s drifted into, happy with a life she thinks is enough – but is it really?

Ten years later, all three women have the lives they thought they wanted. But somehow, reality isn''t quite as neat and clean-cut as their dreams...