Ursula's Story

The wife of the former leader of the British Conservative Party offers another captivating novel that will immerse you into the lives political high fliers lead behind closed doors.

How do you deal with the end of a marriage when you're the partner who is left to pick up the pieces? This is what happens to Ursula who, in addition to dealing with the pain of a broken marriage, is also forced to watch it played out endlessly in the tabloids.

We met Ursula on the morning of her ex-husband's wedding to Victoria James, a government minister and the protagonist of Howard's first novel 'Glass Houses'. Her husband's new relationship has thrust her family into the public eye and the media are harassing her for a comment about the impending nuptials.

Her three children, particularly the two youngest, cannot restrain their excitement. After all, it isn't every day that their father marries a public figure and the Prime Minister and half the Cabinet are invited. But Ursula, who has embarked on a new relationship with a local antiquarian bookseller, sees how hard their daughter Jessie has taken the shake-up. As she struggles to keep her family together, both in public and behind closed doors, one thing is certain: their lives will change dramatically in ways they hadn't imagined.

Drawing on her own experience as a high profile model and the wife of a former leader of the British Conservative Party, Sandra Howard interweaves the lives of political high fliers with the real life they live away from the scrupulous gaze of the public eye. Captivating and moving Ursula's Story is a novel about love, loss and what it takes to move on and start again.

Simon & Schuster
Author: Sandra Howard
ISBN: 9781847370365
RRP: $29.95