She had one rule. She broke it… Cleo Nightingale, star event-planner and recent member of the 'My Marriage Went Kaput' club, is dipping her toe back in the dating pool. She's armed with one steadfast rule: absolutely no dating younger women. Simple, right? Enter Becca Cramer, just out of university, footloose and fancy-free. She’s not hunting for love, but as fate would have it, she stumbles right into Cleo's carefully planned life. They share a drunken kiss. They meet again. Then all hell breaks loose… Prepare yourself for a riot of a ride featuring two weddings, a festival with more drama than EastEnders, a brother nursing a bruised ego, and a bestie who's about to drop. Book five in the much-loved London Romance series delivers yet another hilarious and heartwarming tale: a story of unexpected love, and the joy of not playing by the rules.

The feisty warm-hearted "mum" has long figured as a symbol of the working class in Britain, yet working-class history has emphasized male organizations such as clubs, unions, or political parties. Investigating a different dimension of social history, Love and Toil focuses on motherhood among the London poor in the late Victorian and Edwardian years, and on the cultures, communities, and ties with husbands and children that women created. Mothers' skills in managing the family budget, earning income, and caring for their children were critical in protecting households from the worst hardships of industrial capitalism, yet poverty or the threat of it molded intimate relationships and left its imprint on personalities. This book is also a case study demonstrating the larger argument that the concept of "motherhood" is more socially and historically constructed than biologically determined. Shaky household economics, pressure toward respectability, the close proximity of neighbors, the precariousness of infant and child life, and little chance of better lives for their children shaped the work and emotions of motherhood much more than did the biological experiences of pregnancy, birth, and lactation. This beautifully written book, embellished with Cockney slang and music hall songs, addresses fascinating questions in the fields of women's studies, labor history, social policy, and family history.