Hi,
This is an extract from my first novel 'This Little Piggy' (Trust me, the name makes sense when you read the book)

'This Little Piggy' is a story of your average working mother, struggling to find her identity again outside of being someone's mother, wife, employee or child.
Grace Duddy is 29 and the Parenting Editor of 'Northern People', a monthly glossy published in Northern Ireland.
She lives in Derry, with her husband, Aidan- a man who is sexy but utterly feckless when it comes to figuring out what he wants to do with his life- and their two year old son Jack, a child who loves to sing Christmas carols in July.
While Grace loves Jack with all her heart, she can't quite understand why, since his birth, she has felt at odds with herself. Being unable to give 100% to either her beloved career or her family, she finds herself bored with both.
And- to add to her worries- she is still as heavy as she was at nine months pregnant and she can't remember the last time she put on make up without leaving streaks across her face or smudging her mascara. This is a far cry from the glamourous Health and Beauty Editor she used to be- and when the office bimbo reveals that all her colleagues have been talking about her about her back, things come to a head.
The magazine want Grace to be a guinea pig, someone who will be the subject of their little experiment to have someone's life transformed. Whereas the office bimbo (the anorexically thin Louise) imagines this transformation to be purely on a physical level, Grace soon realises that much more than her outward appearance needs to change.
A night in a hotel in Donegal and a stern talking to by her darling Mammy- a woman who has experienced more than her share of heartache- starts this process.
With the help of Mammy, her lovely and hugely supportive best friend Daisy and a doctor who bears more than a passing resemblance to the hunky foreign doctor in ER, Grace takes a huge look at her life and decides to take control again.
Yes, this may involve taking some happy pills. It may involve crying like an eejit in front of her hard-nosed editor Sinead and being weighed in public- but soon, she starts to see just how much she still has to offer and her life gets pieced back together.


oh, and here is the link....
http://www.writewords.org.uk/archive/14054.asp