Love and houses - Marti Leimbach (First UK edition)

'Of all the people I know, men and women alike, I am the only one whose spouse left them not for another lover. To have driven away a man single-handedly, without rival, is a very damning reflection on one's character and it puts me in a special class of bad wife. However for some reason I also feel rather proud I can look at my marriage, my dead marriage, and say I did this. At least I have done something. And I might be more upset about it than I already am, except that I am hugely pregnant (seven months) and have two mortgages on two houses. the pregnancy part I'm happy about, happy being a relative term in my case. What I'm not so pleased about is being deeply in debt and with a husband who has wondered off like a lost dog...'

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Meg and Andy were a happy couple. They did couplish things. But then Andy left. Meg would divorce Andy but her lawyer has told her that she can't afford to. 'I'm sorry,' he explained, 'I didn't want to tell you. It makes you sound poor.' Meg also thinks she might like to murder Andy, but it doesn't seem appropriate as she is about to have his baby. Besides, the worst part of it is... she still loves him.