Rachael Russell, proud northern feminist has a massive working class chip on her shoulder. And yet somehow, she has ended up in bed with the Government Minister for Communities. Despite the fact that she is a newly bereaved widow thrust into single parenthood, that the Minister doesn’t seem too keen on kids and that his spending cuts are threatening to pull the plug on her own workplace. And to top it all off, Shaun her dangerously addictive Ex from many years ago, appears on the horizon. But nothing fazes Rachael Russell. Even when she inadvertently ends up flashing her booty at the Prime Minister, when her daughter is the cause of a major national religious row and when a confused elderly lady she had been trying to help, locks herself in a town hall cupboard, holding mops and Vim hostage and demanding a ransom of currant tea cakes.

How soon is too soon for another relationship--or even for a quickie--after your husband has been killed in a tragic motorbike accident? Being catapulted into early widowhood and lone-parenting had never been part of Rachael Russell’s game plan. Neither had post-funeral sex with her ex, local government maverick, Shaun Elliott. So, on discovering that Shaun is now married, Rachael ends the affair.But a burgeoning relationship with Government Minister, Michael Chiswick, brings a new set of dilemmas for feminist leftie, Rachael. She isn’t too happy about the latest tabloid newspaper exposure where she stars as the Minister’s Mystery Blonde Biker Bimbo from Brindleford - Manchester’s toughest housing estate. And then she is faced with an unexpected re-appearance of Shaun, who wants to up the stakes.Should Rachael opt for the addictive and adrenalin-fuelled pull of the past? Or head for the uncertainty of Ministerial meanderings with a man from a wholly different class system ...