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Karen’s love life has taken a down turn. Since her break up with Jordan, the father of her child, she’s become stuck in a rut of work-home-child-sleep.
It’s not until her young colleagues, Mimi and Carla, invite her on a night-out that Karen can see a way to regain her youth and zest for life. Sure enough, eyes meet across the dance floor and Karen is set for an entertaining night that will change her mind about being “too old for fun”…
Written by Samantha Kirby
Published by AmorBooks
“Come on, Karen, it’ll be fuuuunnnn…”, Mimi whined.
The girls had been trying to get Karen to go on this “girl’s night” thing for the past month, and they were beginning to sense that they were wearing her down. Every day, each of them would bring it up amongst their group, gossiping so close to their boss that she could almost feel their sideward glances. Her initial refusal had been met with horror and protestations that she “needs to get out there sometime” and that it was important to let her “hair down every now and then”. She was starting to agree.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to go; it was that she felt that she couldn’t go. As a 32 year old mother of a 3 year old, recently divorced from said child’s father and the only man she’d been with since she was 21, she knew that this was not her crowd. The…
