The New Girlfriend is Dave’s story of how he copes with that unexpected and poorly timed death, and meets ‘the new girlfriend’.
As any man can tell you, finding a new girlfriend is not as easy as it sounds when his friends, usually in a pub somewhere, are encouraging him to get out and meet someone new.
Like most love stories, Dave’s experience of ‘the new girlfriend’ is not all smooth sailing. It has some heartache, some funny moments, and a promising ending.
If you enjoy a light hearted look at life, even at some of its darker moments, you’ll enjoy The New Girlfriend.
Peter Mulraney is a creative writer and thinker based in Adelaide, Australia.
Peter grew up in country South Australia, before going to Adelaide to complete high school and attend university. While he was studying in the city, he met an Italian girl and forgot to go home. Now he’s married with two grown children.
In his spare time, he has worked as a teacher, an insurance agent, a banker and a public servant.
He is the author of the Inspector West series of crime novels, The Living Alone series, for men who find themselves alone at the end of a long term relationship, or during a prolonged separation, and need to work out how to look after themselves, and of Sharing the Journey: Reflections of a Reluctant Mystic.