Barbara Else — Gingerbread Husbands
Godwit 1997 Paperback, 260pp. Sophie Redlove has a crumbling Gothic mansion to restore, three children to manage, a distraught friend - as well as possums in the laundry at midnight. She loves her absent husband Russell - but there's an importunate older man who's after her, a slightly sycophanic younger one, an angel and a Viking on the scene.What the hell is Russell up to? And what is the story in Sophie's gradually uncovered past that explains her dependence on those mysterious and vulnerable creatures - men?, (ISBN: 9781869620165). Good.