Sorry but I just couldn't get into the plot of this book at all, it feels like something important is missing but I couldn't figure out what that was

What would you do if you won a small fortune?  A dilemma for Susan, but not for long as she knows exactly what she'll do.  Husband Jeff is thrilled with the win too especially when he buys his pride and joy - a Rolls Royce!  You'd think that everything in the garden will be rosy now wouldn't you, but there are other underlying things going on.  Interesting concept, but this pair are really quite awful, especially to each other and I for one would rather be penniless than be like them.  I would have preferred the story to continue a little more as it ended in a bit of a hurry.

This is a beautifully written elaborately complex plot about a woman, Susan Bentham, who has won the pools (this is before the days of Lotto)  -a vast sum of nearly 1.5m.  Within the space of a few days of the win, she has calmly and calculatingly decided how to spend the rest of her life without her philandering husband of whom she has endured 25 years of marriage.

This isn’t about domestic violence or abuse, just a woman whose life was put on hold when she was pregnant, coerced into marrying quickly, losing her baby and doing the bidding of Jeff her husband ever since and she just wanted to get some of her life back.  She assumes that her husband will not realise how his life is going to change as he's too busy buying his dream Rolls Royce and setting his present mistress up in luxury.  The moves she puts into place are very subtly done but towards the end, the “road to Damascus” moment becomes clear and I guarantee you will not see the ending coming.

There is black humour interspersed with emotionally dramatic moments and Ms Chaplin conveys to us a woman who has been a doormat to her husband and who is still attractive but wants to break free of her reins.  An absolutely great read.

Excellent book.  Great main characters and plot.  I would recommend this book.