"Meet the shameless women of a certain age who kick over the traces in the most unsuspected ways." Gwen Hullah's collection of compendious stories - wherein these pages you will meet the Silver Splitters who, like the orchid dares to bloom while its keeper is away on holiday. "She Kissed It Worse" - a very plain widow with very deliberate ways; who knows the value of medicinal herbs and deadly plants... "Daggers Drawn" - a Women's Institute secretary who takes perverse pleasure in usurping an old rival - the reinstated chairwoman, and...

"With the logic of betrayed the Asquith women instigate revenge - murder dressed in its Sunday best." Revenge fiction - set within the four seasons of 1947. The Asquith women have been mastered, yet they are controlling together what they have been mastered by - Sam Asquith, land-owner. Found. Dead. Sorrow turns to revenge when Stella Asquith - the vivacious widow - and her land-girl daughters, aided by their psychopathic farm-man, discover half-share of Sam's wealth has been bequeathed to a kept-in-the-dark illegitmate son. Bitter in...