‘My shoes are wet and my hair is straggly – it’s Tuesday and it’s raining - again. And I had to walk to work in the rain - again. There is so no point blow drying my hair if this is the result. I really should buy an umbrella. Knowing me, I’d probably lose it like every other umbrella anyway. And everything else in my poxy life...’ Rachel is depressed and single. Well, she says she’s single. She still holds a torch or, a birthday candle, for her ex, Robert. However, Robert has a new girlfriend called Lisa and isn’t interested in getting back together with Rachel. Rachel holds on anyway, living in hope. Anne is Rachel’s best friend and is young, free, and single and loves to bar hop to find a man for the night. She’s always forgetting her knickers the next morning and doesn’t like the idea of commitment. Charlie sleeps with Anne and falls in love with Rachel. When a near-fatal accident blights the lives of the girls, life begins a new direction for both. Can they embrace the change and break out of their stereotypes? Or will old habits die hard? Breaking the Mould is the first of three stories...