Sushi for Beginners

Lisa Edwards edits a magazine in London and wears Prada. When she is offered what sounds like a fabulous new job, it turns out to be a posting to Dublin, where she is to launch a magazine called Colleen. She treats it as a deportation. Her one consolation is that none of her friends will see how far she thinks she has fallen.

Her new boss is Jack Devine, who is disheveled and moody. Lisa has to work out whether he is a problem or a way out of the mess she thinks she is in.

Ashling Kennedy is Colleen's assistant editor. She worries professionally, and she has the prize to show for it. She also senses that something basic is absent from her life, and a boyfriend and a smaller waistline are only part of the list.

Ashling's best friend is Clodagh Kelly, known as Princess, who lives in a suburban castle with the domestic life most people are supposed to want. Lately she keeps feeling the urge to kiss a frog, and if she is honest, to sleep with one.

The novel follows these three women as each goes looking for love, success and contentment. It is a comic women's fiction story with a Dublin workplace at its center, and the tension comes from what has been left to simmer in each of their lives until it boils over.