Dreamwives by Claire Novak

When two enterprising women hit the financial skids, they cook up a business to make money from the wife-work they’ve been doing for decades. But will their labour of love be too hot to handle?

Middle-aged housewife Katrina Webb, dumped by her husband and suddenly broke, meets her old friend Michelle Redlin-Wu, who looks after her elderly father and has just been laid off. Over a stolen bottle of champagne, they decide that people should pay for the domestic and emotional work women have largely shouldered for centuries, and their business is born.

Dreamwives aren’t cleaners or nannies or housekeepers – they create warm and inviting homes by cooking dinner, leaving the bathroom clean (and just a little bit used), and listening to their clients unload. This is extreme customer service – no sex included.

It seems to be a winning formula, until Michelle starts falling for a client, and Katrina finds herself at the centre of a very public scandal. Can they really get paid for the work that so many women do for free, or are they flushing their lives away? This fast-paced romp will make you laugh, shout and cry … And make you forget about your To-Do list for a while.