sharon j. richardson

When they're good, they're very, very good and when they're bad, they're so much more fun!
The Goodtime Girls is the story of four women that you'd never put together as a group of friends, yet meet and forge a lasting and valuable friendship. From finding new relationships or meeting second time around to ending old ones, they share their life experiences over the first two years they spend together. And oh boy, do they like to share…
Grace Harper, who's happy to plod along in life and not usually known for her bravery, is about to make a huge leap of faith, her biggest ever, because it feels like the right thing to do. But is there something or someone else behind her decision?
She tells her best friend Sabrina Jenkins, only to hear that she harbours her own desire to shake things up in her life. Sabrina definitely wasn't the spur-of-the-moment kinda girl, so why did she want to move away so quickly from her safe little world? Will she see it through or will she let Grace talk her out of it?
Chloe Parker feels like it's Groundhog Day in her relationship with her husband of fifteen years, Stuart. But will she dare to tell him and her two boys? As Stuart’s behaviour starts to change, she feels like she hasn't heard the whole story and is left wondering what turmoil was ahead of her. Surely he hadn’t been cheating on her?
When Meg Nicholls, who thought she had it all in her relationship with Alex, watched it turn sour and fast, what she didn't know, was that she was about to walk into a living nightmare. Work was the pits too, with a boss who just had it in for her. She felt stuck with no way out. Could things get any worse?
As the girls friendship develops, they teach one another how to dress, shop, flirt and talk about sex, with a little bit of mystery and some culture thrown in between, somewhere along the way.
Enjoying all the highs of their holidays and nights out on the town to the lows of their relationships, they learn to start again and rebuild their lives, as only best friends know how, together.
As they all send a prayer to their guardian angels to show them a brighter side to life than what they’ve all recently been going through, they also pray that they can be naughty as well as nice.
Be careful what you wish for girls...