Why Do We Have to Live with Men? asks Bernadette Strachan in her upcoming novel. Subtitled Cat O'Connor is Asking Herself the Question on Every Woman's Mind, the summary says: "When Cat O'Connor, escaping from a ruined affair, is invited to join a group of women in a huge, decaying farmhouse deep in the West Country, Cat prepares to embark on a life without men. She is promised a nirvana of serenity where the chores are done without mutinous mutterings, nourishing food simmers on the Aga and feelings are taken seriously. But Cat soon discovers that women are no saints either. Vegetable-related subterfuge, secret passions, a misogynist ghost and a pig called Dave all nudge Cat on her way to answering the vital question in every girl's life." Why Do We Have to Live with Men? is out in October.

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