Forty Love: the laugh-out-loud romantic comedy for the Menopausing audience!
By (Author) Jane Costello
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder Paperback
15th August 2026
23rd April 2026
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Modern and Contemporary romance
Tennis
823.92
Paperback
320
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
It's never too late for a comeback!
Single mum Jules lives next to a tennis club, but has no plans to play. Especially when her old school crush, handsome doctor Sam Delaney, returns from the USA thirty years after leaving and is now displaying a killer forehand in direct view of her bedroom window. Despite what she tells her personal trainer fiance, Jules finds exercise as tedious in her 40s as she did as a teenager. But when she's hit by an unprecedented wave of anxiety - brought on by perimenopause and her 19-year-old daughter's solo trip around the world - she's in urgent need of a distraction and rashly agrees to join an amateur women's tennis team. They are desperate for players. The fact that she can't really play doesn't seem to matter . . . As rallies are hit and friendships are formed, Jules is astonished to find herself in the grip of a passionate, all-consuming relationship . . . and not only with the tennis. Problem is, will these sexy encounters she keeps stumbling into with Sam put her on course to a devastating double faultJane Costello is a Sunday Times bestselling author of romantic comedies. She also writes as Catherine Isaac.
Jane was a newspaper journalist before she became an author, working on the Liverpool Echo, the Daily Mail and the Liverpool Daily Post, where she was Editor.She continues to write for newspapers and magazines and has contributed articles to the Guardian, Marie Claire, Prima and The Times, among others.