The Feng Shui Junkie

When Julie returns home unexpectedly early from a short holiday, only to find a strange lemon-yellow wonderbra hanging on the inside doorknob of their Dublin flat, she is confronted by the inescapable fact that her husband Ronan is having an affair. But who with? And above all, why?

Julie resists the urge for an immediate and violent showdown and instead, fuelled by anger, despair and a plentiful supply of whiskey, embarks on a campaign of detection and revenge. Her motto: get mad, then get even, then throw the bastard out. Her mother, and her best friend Sylvana, neither of whom have much time for Ronan, are willing accomplices.

The first victim is Ronan's beloved Porsche. Then, after she has identified lovely blonde Nicole as his lover, a clandestine visit to her house provides Julie not only with useful information about the enemy, but also with ample opportunity to vent her wrath. Not least on Nicole's aquarium.

But an unexpected turn of events throws Julie and Nicole together, though Nicole has no idea that her new friend is the wife about whom Ronan has been so scathing. And much to her surprise Julie finds that Nicole, despite her attachment to faddish absurdities like feng shui, is impossible to hate. Maybe, she begins to realise, Nicole is as much a victim of Ronan's manipulations as she is.