She does not get dressed until lunch time and only waits for pregnancy to strike to start leading an active and fulfilling life. She is outraged by suggestions that she has gone all fat and become complacent because she’s got a man. She watches a lot of television while gorging on biscuits until she is fat. She does nothing much about what she used to do before she was married to Nick. Since getting married to Nick, Polly Penhalligan is accused of letting herself go. They live in a rural manor farmhouse in Cornwall. It is about Polly Penhalligan who is newly married to her husband Nick. Going Too Far was Catherine’s second novel and was published in 1993 by World Penguin. In her course to look for true love with Adam, everything does not run smooth and she is ruining her life in the process even when she knows, it isn’t truly her deserved love in the first place. Polly does not have the support of the Old girl network and she is left on her own to deal with things. Her old girl network of St Gertrude’s promise to look after one another but soon everything is a tangle and hopeless. Over dinner at the Savoy, she agrees and they decide to move on. Polly is equally enthralled by Adam and she gives in to his request to help her find her missing fiancée. Adam notices Polly by recognizing her old school scarf. Left looking for true love, she meets this handsome stranger who is also looking for his missing fiancée. Her boyfriend is gorgeous but does not give her true love nor is he there when she needs him. She works with an arrogant and demanding boss at work, while her boyfriend does not seem to care much about her. Her first novel, The Old Girl Network is about Poly McLaren who is young, scatty and impossibly romantic girl. She shares her home with her family and a total of eighty seven beating hearts a menagerie comprising of dogs, chicken, sheep and horses. As a best-selling author, Catherine writes her books from the comfort of her garden or sofa at her home in a rural spot on the Herts/Bucks border. She continues to write and feel thrilled when she sees her books still in shops. Catherine Alliot is a best-selling author of fourteen novels which include ‘A Crowded Marriage’, ‘The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton’, ‘Wish You Were Here’ and ‘Rosie Meadows Regrets’.Ĭatherine now lives with her husband and their three children. It was chosen by WHSmith in 1994 for fresh talent promotion. The Old Girl Network, was Catherine’s first novel and has a huge amount of success and became an instant best seller in the country. At this time, she was using a computer that she was given by her brother to put the draft together.

When her son was born, she realized that she had so much time while the baby was asleep and she decided to revisit her work. She started working as a freelancer while at the time she was pregnant. Catherine became even more galvanized and determined to finish her novel. This did not last long and she was given the sack by her boss who thought she was not fully committed to her work. She did not have plans for publication at the time, or major plans for her writing.

She was bored of writing blurb for soap powder and she began writing a novel under her desk to relieve the boredom. She admits that her writing was not something she had planned and only occurred by chance. She graduated from Warwick University and later on moved to London where she worked as a copywriter with an advertising agency.

Catherine Alliott was born and raised in Hertfordshire, England.

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