Her Husband's Mistake 3 - The End (Pages 281 - end)

 SPOILERS!!!

Roxy goes through a notable change in the way she sees life. After Dave's indiscretion, she realises that she wants to have a life of her own and not just being a wife or a mother. Driving is something she enjoys. Yet, Dave does not support her and seems to be a man from the 50s than someone living in the 21st century. He keeps saying that she needs to stay at home and being there for him and the children, and he claims that they could sell the Mercedes and enjoy a holiday. He even goes behind her back and tries to sell the car without her permission. And when his arguments do not seem to convince Roxy, he starts saying that they need to have another baby. 

Roxy feels guilty about feeling attracted to Ivo when she overnighted in Cork. Then she doesn't hear from him for a while, and after a few weeks he calls because he needs her services as his father has died and he needs to be driven there. It is not just him, but his very glamorous girlfriend. Roxy decides to go to the funeral, and she meets Izzy, Ivo's sister. Izzy is very friendly and tells her a great deal about her brother. She says that Ivo's mother died and Ivo blamed his father. His father was very strict with him, and only recently Izzy persuaded him to visit. For a while Roxy thinks that Ivo may be the child that her father supposedly had with his first girlfriend, Stelle, especially as the photo of the child turns out to be his, and Izzy mentions that Ivo's mother was called Estella. Yet, when Roxy tells her mother, Selina says that she is wrong. With the help of the man she has met through a dating app, Selina has found out that Stelle's son is living in Brazil. 

Roxy keeps considering all that she has learnt all these months through her work and clients, and she realises that she doesn't love Dave any longer. So she talks to him and tells him that she wants a divorce. Dave is not pleased, but the next day he moves next door with Julie, the neighbour Roxy found him in bed with in the first chapter. 

It is difficult for her to tell the children, but she manages to give them the stability they have despite everything. And then Ivo calls, saying that he needs her to drive him, and in the conversation she mentions that there is no husband any longer, and Ivo tells her that his girlfriend has taken a job in Canada. That is where the book ends.

I enjoyed the book, but I found Dave's attitude old-fashioned for the time. I can understand that there are still men like that, but other characters also supported his view that Roxy shouldn't work and stay at home.