'Thirty-five, fit and solvent with children at school and the sweet scent of freedom in my nostrils, I was ripe for it'. Thus muses Harriet Dare, the woman with everything - a brilliant career as the author of hot historicals, a happy marriage, two lovely teenage children and a comfortable home. So what makes Harriet's fancy turn to adulterous thoughts of lust? The arrival of Constantine Ghikas, bachelor of the parish of Basset Parva, to join the local medical practice. Constantine is as handsome as any of Harriet's thick-thewed heroes and she finds herself in the throes of a knee trembling passion so far experienced only between the pages of her own bodice - rippers. With her unsuspecting husband George safely marooned in the Middle East, Harriet has a brief and hilarious tussle with her consience .. and loses. Hell-bent on snaring the romantic Greek, she stages endless seduction scenes only to be thwarted by the unwitting sabotage of her family and friends. And all this against the background of a procession of domestic distractions. Not to mention the mute reproach of her trusty tripewriter and the more vocal demands of Harriet's publishers, Era Books, panting for a sight of THE REMBERANCE TREE as well as sending her on the relentless rollercoaster of promotional tours. Harriet's erratic progress as she skirts the minefield of illicit desire, a romantic adrift in a sex-mad world, makes hilarious reading and will strike a familiar chord in anyone who has ever cast a lavicious eye over forbidden fruit.