Ellie Frumpp Pee Aitch Dee

Being a 'Bond girl' is all very well, but what is it really like to have your life turned upside-down by a suave, sophisticated spy? Self-effacing Ellie Frumpp is resigned to her lot as a researcher at the down-beat University of Hardnox in England. Here, she endures the disingenuous behaviour of her ambitious colleagues, sustained only by her Bond-related fantasies, a regular soap opera, and occasional trips to the pub. Over in Vancouver, the beautiful Grace Lefavarie loves her life as research co-ordinator of Amity Action - the funders of Ellie's project. But will everything change when Alec Tramane, a charming, manipulative British secret agent, storms into their lives? Ellie Frump Pee Aitch Dee is two books in one: a hilarious account of dingy, provincial university life intertwined with a light-hearted story of global conspiracy, both told firmly from the female perspective.