Claire Francis did just that when she stopped sailing and began a career as a novelist. In her latest thriller a young women cuts herself off from friends and family in order to begin a new life. And Tricia Stewart of the Rylstone Women's Institute, turned her life around, not to mention the reputation of the Women's Institute, when she posed nude for that calendar - the alternative W I one - better known as the Naked Ladies Calendar. A Death Divided by Clare Francis (Macmillan, ISBN: 0333905601, £9.99) Calendar Girl - In Which a Lady of Rylstone Reveals All by Tricia Stewart (Sidgwick & Jackson, ISBN: 0283073411, £14.99.
