Small Town Girl by Claudine Cullimore
Being a girl in a small town likes Waterford in Ireland, your every single behavior is visible to every inhabitants there. Rosie Flynn, a 29 years old girl had stayed with her husband Richie for four years, but one day he left her for an older women, Ellen Van Damme. In a town where you should stop every three seconds to say hi with someone you know, it is not difficult to imagine that this newa spreaded rapidly than Rosie expected. She had no time to settle down what to do but received comforts or questions from everyone.
Her friends and sisters told her Richie was not a nice guy since they had met him at the very beginning, but no one mentioned to Rosie about it before. Richie kept showing up in the public with Ellen to let everyone knew Ellen was his new wife. It embarrassed Rosie a lot but she rapidly striked back. She made several tricks to Richie and Ellen, and she wrote in a female magazine her experience as a divorced women. It made enormous echos from the readers, she then became popular and became a professional columnist. After her trip to England, she brought the idea of singleton party from there to Ireland, and then she also became a event manager in the most famous hotel in Waterford, not to mention that she found a handsome man, Hank, became the Mr. Right in her life. Divorce made her understood that she could have a total independent new life, with her own career.
The story also mentioned about the issue of sibling relationship, Irish tradition and social custom, and transexuality in England and Ireland. It is not a lollipop-sweet novel, but funny.