For Alice Green, reaching fifty is much the same as being invisible so why not make the most of it. Her head-in-the-sand husband doesn’t notice the clothes mountain and piles of pretty stationery. The adrenalin rushes become addictive highs in a life that has wavered and halted. But when two police cars draw up outside her house in leafy Edinburgh, she knows the game is up. Alice must face the present and rake over the past.

Run, Alice, Run will speak to middle-aged women who feel irrelevant, invisible and redundant in a society that values youth over wisdom, beauty over experience. Fifty-something Alice Green responds with a manic shop-lifting spree – after all no-one sees her – that prompts her to question and understand her past in a bid to secure and save her future.

Run, Alice, Run is an irreverent coming-of-middle-age novel that looks with irony and black humour at the way society defines and diminishes women of all ages.