HEAT magazine calls it "a must-read" and, yes, it is if you're a typical, Heat-reading, gossip loving girlie like me - but this novel wouldn't really appeal to a wider market than that.

Boyfriend In A Dress traces the love triangle between a TV executive, her City broker boyfriend and her former American flame.

Nicola has been with Charlie for six years and the relationship is much at breaking point - until one day, when Nicola turns up at Charlie's flat only to find him in one of her dresses, crying to himself, having had a mini break-down.

Nicola takes Charlie away to the coast for the weekend and their relationship is re-kindled. Except their reunion is threatened by a shadow in the looming shape of Dale, with whom Nicola had a one night stand when the trio were at university in America years before. Several large skeletons shake themselves out of the closet, with dramatic outcomes for all three.

Updated: 09:29 Wednesday, June 18, 2003