When To Walk - Softcover

When Ramble's husband tells her "I've basically had enough," followed by "I expect there are things about me that you find difficult," all she can think of is how she hates the way he insists on using only 100-watt lightbulbs. But it's too late, because now Con has jumped ship, and Ramble is left to reconstitute her life. It won't be easy, she decides, given her deaf ear, her "gimpy" legs and her "hack" writing job that involves penning articles about exotic locales - "Thinking of getting away in the spring?" - when she rarely makes it farther than the local pub. Not to mention, as Con says, her "borderline anti-social personality." Torn between burying her head in the debris of her marriage or finally breaking free, Ramble has to answer the ultimate question: When to walk? Published to stellar reviews in the UK, When to Walk takes us inside the mind of a young woman who teeters between old-fashioned values and 21st-century neuroses. The result is "a mercurial delight, a humorous romp spiked with the unpredictable and the darkly comic." (New Statesman)