Gillian Ormendroyd adds to her cache of thoughtful and believable female-led fiction with an illustrated tale of how one husband’s dalliance with infidelity sets in motion the complete dismantling of his life. A dismantling that will estrange him from wife, family, and friends and see him uprooted from a now miserable and penniless existence in London to a more comfortable but more disciplined reality in the home of an affluent Syrian widow on the North-East coast above Scarborough. An affluent and authoritative Syrian widow who has both a plan and a purpose for how he his life will be spent going ahead. And just who he will be spending it on!   Ms Ormendroyd is the writer of the semi-autobiographical classic on the subject of wife dominated partnerships, “A Female-Led Marriage” and the shorter but no less charged tale: “Demoting Simon”.