Fran Littlewood covers menopause and motherhood in 'raw' debut novel

With her novel, Fran Littlewood has joined the menopause fight-back generation.
On the hottest day of the year, Grace Adams finally boils over. Abandoning her car in gridlocked traffic — not unlike Michael Douglas in the 1993 film
, except it’s North London instead of Los Angeles, and there are golf clubs rather than guns — Grace sets off on foot on a Leopold Bloom-like odyssey across the north of the city. Her mission is to deliver a melting birthday cake to her sixteen-year-old daughter Lotte, who has moved in with her dad and is no longer speaking to her.