I think I expected a little more from this book. Not sure why, but it left me a little dissapointed. Well written and funny, but the best.

Still reeling from an unexpected divorce, Laura finds herself renting a flat in a very posh area, while she tries to find somewhere to live for herself and 5yr old daughter Betsy, all this while running her own cleaning business. The arrival of a single woman in The Close is bad news for the trophy wives who live in this exclusive estate, and Laura falls foul of Stella, the queen bee of the title. Unwittingly Laura gets dragged into the goings on in The Close, feeling sorry for Stella while still being ostracised by the women living there, other than Gail, her lovely landlady. This book took me quite some time to get into, and begin to like the characters, the majority of who I just wanted to shake and tell them to get a life. A few of them were instantly lovable - Betsy, Angie, Gail, and by association her husband Ben. Laura initially irritated me, but i grew to like her and even Stella by the end. This is definitely one of those books that I was glad I persevered with, although at times I did think that there were too many twists. However, it all came to a very satisfactory ending, and I’ll definitely look for other books by this author. Thanks to netgalley and the publishers for an ARC in return for an honest review