Far from over - Sheila O'Flanagan

Sometimes when you think it’s over, it’s only just begun.

Gemma Garvey’s marriage has been over for ages. After all, it was Gemma who ended it, her choice to go it alone with two kids, rather than pretend the marriage to career-obsessed David was working.

So why is she so upset when he marries that flame-haired bimbo bitch, Orla O’Neill?

Is it that Orla’s nearer in age to Gemma’s teenage daughter than to herself?

Is it that she’s tall, thin and gorgeous whilst Gemma, at 35, sometimes feels more like 55? And that David’s starting a new life with someone who thinks she’s trundling towards middle age alone?

But for Orla, being wife number two isn’t all she’d imagined, always aware of how Gemma ran a house, looked after her kids and held down a job whilst she can’t even cook dinner without setting the kitchen on fire.

To David, both have been wives and he’s loved them both. And when he married Orla, young, lovely and almost as good at her job as he is at his, he didn’t see any problem.

But the trouble has only just begun…