Sandie Jones shares the story of how she came to write her new book, The Other Woman.
The Other Woman is a gripping domestic thriller about a mother whose love for her son threatens his relationship with his new girlfriend.
With fans including book-lover Reese Witherspoon, who listed The Other Woman as her November book pick, here, author Sandie Jones shares the story of how she came to write the book.
The idea behind The Other Woman started to form when I reached my forties. I was fascinated to discover that whilst friends and peers were still struggling to temper the power struggle with their mother-in-laws, some twenty-five years on; they were also becoming mother-in-laws themselves. You would have thought that they had learnt from their own experience and therefore strive to be their daughter-in-law’s best friend, but incredibly they themselves often turn into the very same ‘monster-in-laws’ that they’ve spent their entire marriage fighting against. Read more