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Season 1

  • S01E01 On the Road

    • April 12, 2002
    • Channel 4

    Clare's book group starts to assemble. She meets Kenny, a handsome guy in a wheelchair who wants to be a writer; Janice, the frustrated wife of a Scottish footballer; and eccentric student Barney, to whom Clare is strangely attracted...

  • S01E02 The Alchemist

    • April 19, 2002
    • Channel 4

    Kenny has an admirer at the leisure centre where he works, but does she know he's in a wheelchair? Meanwhile, Fist decides to follow some advice from this week's book - and leave her husband...

  • S01E03 Magical Realism

    • April 26, 2002
    • Channel 4

    Kenny is writing a book in which a beautiful woman who looks a lot like Fist shares a cabin in the hills with him. Clare is also writing a book, in which a handsome professor who looks a lot like Barney falls in love with his student, a lovely American woman not unlike Clare.

  • S01E04 Bedtime Stories

    • May 3, 2002
    • Channel 4

    Clare discovers Barney's on drugs, and decides it's her mission in life to save him. Meanwhile, Janice sleeps with the famous thriller writer, Martin Logan, and can't wait to go to confession to tell her priest, a big fan of the author.

  • S01E05 Dark Alley

    • May 10, 2002
    • Channel 4

    Janice hosts the book group as they discuss the book written by the author she is having an affair with. But the group can't seem to focus on their subject.

  • S01E06 A Little More Living

    • May 17, 2002
    • Channel 4

    Barney has died of an overdose. His brother Lachlan arrives to tell Clare - and there is an instant spark between them. Meanwhile, Kenny's literary fantasies intrigue Fist and Dirka - but can he deliver in the flesh?

Season 2

  • S02E01 Sueños

    • January 24, 2003
    • Channel 4

    Clare is living in apparent bliss with her artist boyfriend Lachlan, in a loft apartment with no furniture. But then her sister from hell comes to visit - and won't go away.

  • S02E02 Hunger

    • January 31, 2003
    • Channel 4

    Kenny brings along his new girlfriend, Carole Anne, to the book group, much to the irritation of all the women.

  • S02E03 You Must Change Your Life

    • February 7, 2003
    • Channel 4

    Kenny is doing a book tour and the women of the Outer Isles can't get enough of the author of 'Peaks in the Mist'. Meanwhile, Lachlan seems to be taking an awful lot of interest in Clare's sister.

  • S02E04 Drowning

    • February 14, 2003
    • Channel 4

    Lachlan is in a brace, due to his unfortunate fall into the empty pool. He makes a terrible invalid, and Clare is no good at changing bedpans.

  • S02E05 Research

    • February 21, 2003
    • Channel 4

    The group reads a dirty book, The Sexual History of Catherine M. Fist is impressed, and decides to organise group sex with Dirka. Lars and Bart. Meanwhile, Jean is mistaken for a prostitute while conducting research for her new book, and Clare meets Kenny's underage girlfriend, Harriet.

  • S02E06 A'Salaam Insh'Allah

    • February 28, 2003
    • Channel 4

    Jean has a party to celebrate her book deal. Kenny sings karaoke, Lachlan proposes to a reluctant Clare, and Janice gets very drunk and tells Rab she loves him.

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