Jo Wood on dating after divorce: Just get out there!
Wood has now written a novel in which she describes a woman navigating the break-up despair in a way I've never read before. Her heroine can't eat or sleep. She won't wash or even get dressed. She hasn't shaved her armpits for six weeks … and 'my bush was out of control', Wood writes.
'Well, that's what it was like for me too,' she says. 'When I was really brokenhearted I totally let myself go. I didn't shave my legs, I didn't shave anything. I was just miserable. My eldest son said to me, 'Mum, get yourself together', and I thought, 'What am I going to do with my life now?'
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