If you're nearing forty and your husband suddenly dumps you after ten years of marriage, and he has the gall to do it over the phone, it's bound to come as a blow. This is exactly what happens one fine evening to Christine, a publishing sales rep who is always on the road. When he calls, she's sitting on her sister's sofa. What should she do? Even though she is in crisis, she has to do something ? or so say her sister Ines and her many girlfriends. First and foremost, they insist: move out. It's only once she's left home and moved to the city that it hits her - Why did he leave? How ever will she get used to being on her own? She has to develop a whole new rhythm to her life, and boost her tattered self-confidence. But as her friend Marlene says: ?Darling, in six months' time you'll be laughing about it all.? But do we really laugh off such serious matters as divorce? Dora Heldt might just convince you with this uplifting, humorous novel about starting life afresh.