ABOUT THE BOOK: It’s never too late to reinvent your life.

Audrey Lamont has happily devoted herself to family life for the best part of 40 years, but lately she’s become aware that she lost herself somewhere between 'I do' and the weekly shop.
 
Worse, her academic husband Simon has found time for romance – just not with Audrey. Feeling invisible to everyone, even herself, she flees to her aunt’s home in rural France.
 
While waiting for her sudden absence to spark a change of heart in Simon, Audrey finds solace in the charms of the French countryside and the company of her aged aunt and a cast of eccentric Bretons.
 
But soon Audrey discovers going AWOL might do more than save her marriage, it might change her life …
 
Audrey’s Gone AWOL is a funny and beautifully observed story about losing yourself, finding yourself, and discovering joy.

Annie de Monchaux is an English, West Australian-based writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her non-fiction anthology Cray Tales was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards and the basis of a CBS/ABC documentary. Prior to this, Annie worked in Hollywood, rewriting scripts for films such as Superman II, III and IV, and The Shell Game.