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  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781869793210
  • Imprint: RHNZ Adult ebooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 225

Head Over Heels



An entertaining novel about love and life when you're stuck in the hectic Sandwich Generation

An entertaining novel about love and life when you're stuck in the hectic Sandwich Generation.

Rushing from one crisis to another, Penny Rushmore has a name to live up to, coping with a demanding job and still adapting to life without her husband Steve. The first set-back comes when she hears that the glamorous young woman Steve took off with is pregnant. According to Charlotte, Penny's daughter, Steve and Jacinta are head over heels about each other. According to Penny's son, Charlotte is also head over heels - about her ageing university lecturer. But is Penny head over heels about her new boyfriend or is she too frantic running between disasters to find out? And is her elderly father still head over heels about his wife or has her advanced dementia driven him over the edge?

Funny and fast-paced, this is a candid and entertaining novel about finding some sort of balance in your life while being sandwiched between the demands of ageing parents, teenagers, a career and a badly behaved spaniel.

  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781869793210
  • Imprint: RHNZ Adult ebooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 225

About the author

Felicity Price

Felicity Price is the author of six novels, including the Penny Rushmore trilogy – Split Time (2005), A Sandwich Short of a Picnic (2008) and Head Over Heels (2010) — and a bestselling biography on John Britten, two corporate histories (Lane Walker Rudkin and the Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce) and a pictorial history of Tekapo and the Mackenzie Country. She began her writing career at The Press in the 1970s, before moving on to journalism at TVNZ and Radio New Zealand. She has also written for North & South and was a panellist on TVNZ’s Beauty and the Beast. Since 1987, Felicity has been running her award-winning public relations company, in partnership with her husband Chris Rennie, with whom she has two children. Price chairs the Court Theatre Trust board and has also chaired the Christchurch Symphony Trust board and the Christchurch Book Festival Trust. In 2009, she was awarded ONZM (Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit) in recognition of her services to business and the arts.
The Dominion Post described Split Time as: ‘Chick lit meets feminism ...and the result is an appealing, readable novel with soul and a social conscience.’ The Press noted that, ‘Price’s breezy style, wry humour and honest portrayal of a modern woman’s lot will make this a popular choice for a reader looking for more than a formulaic chick lit.’ The NZ Herald wrote: ‘The pace is lively, the dialogue peppy, the story eminently readable ... light, entertaining and satisfying.’ Both A Sandwich Short of a Picnic and Head Over Heels stayed on the bestseller lists for several months. The Southland Times said of the latter, ‘it was an entertaining light read and did keep me turning the pages to see what would happen next’.

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