Meet Jess and her friends, Bridget Jones' elder sisters, the struggling but still optimistic middle-aged women of Berringden Brow.

Good degrees, poor employment prospects, having to cope with bizarre job interviews, stroppy teenage kids, ageism, sexism, lookism, sizeism... scanning the personal columns in search of a rare eligible man without hypochondria, a live-in mother, multiple allergies, objections to snoring, a preference for playing with toy soldiers, the inability to keep a date, or a penchant for sex in public places.

But whenever it all gets too much for Jess, she can at least escape into the library...

Berringden Brow by Jill Robinson is published by Pennine Pens.

Continuing the everyday story of life in Berringden Brow by Jill Robinson

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Jess feels her serenity slipping, as she struggles with teenage tantrums, men's mid-life crises, dope, dogs, refugees,rampant plants, rough sleepers in the shed, bureaucrats on the dorstep plus of course Nick - and she is rapidly running out of floor space