The Diary of Roxy Collins
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Meet Roxy Collins - a thirty-something single mother, with three unruly children, two ex-partners, wobbly bits on her thighs which no diet can get rid of and an addiction to fake tan.
When Roxy's cousin, Maggie, jilts her fiancé at the altar and runs away to Greece, Roxy's family pay for her to fly to Greece and persuade Maggie to come home. Can Roxy talk some sense into her cousin Maggie?
Can she find her Prince Charming on a sun soaked Greek beach or will Marcus, the man who stole her heart at an office Christmas party, make a move?
Read her hilarious diary which records her romantic highs and lows.
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