In a varied writing career, Sue Clark has penned BBC Radio and TV comedy scripts for the likes of David Jason, Lenny Henry, and Tracey Ullman, but has never done what she always longed to do: write comedy fiction.She took up a creative writing course with Oxford University, joined a writing group and let her love for comedy roam free. Sue's debut, Note To Boy, was published in 2020 winning a Pencraft award.

'It's a bit tricky to find. Just down the lane from the old ochre pit.'With these words, Trish, badly bruised by life, is catapulted into the world of celebrity author, Amanda Turner.Her marriage on the rocks, no job, and at odds with her teenage daughters, Trish vows to reinvent herself. 'Like Madonna,' she tells her teens. 'Only as a writer.'Naively, she pins her hopes on arrogant Amanda to nurture her and weekly classes begin at Amanda's gloomy house in the woods. Trish takes an instant dislike to Amanda's strapping young handyman, Pavel. Her suspicions grow, as an air of foreboding - as well as a nasty smell - hang over the house.When Amanda vanishes, it's left to Trish to mount a rescue. Is she woman enough for the job? Will she ever write that bestseller?Funny and touching, A Novel Solution is an engaging and uplifting story of a woman's struggle to sort her life out.