Novels
In the 1990s, Gascoine began a career as a novelist. Her first novel was Addicted (1994), about a successful television actress in her fifties who embarks on a destructive affair with a younger, half-English/half-Spanish actor in his thirties. Interestingly, Gascoine's real-life husband Alfred Molina is an actor of Italian/Spanish descent and is 16 years her junior. This was followed by her second novel, Lillian (1995), about a woman who begins a love affair when she goes on holiday to California with her best friend.
Her third novel was Just Like A Woman (1997), which details the story of Daisy, a middle-aged woman who is being pressured by her family to have an abortion after she falls pregnant in her fifties.
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