A NOVEL set in a fictional Yorkshire village went on sale at a North Yorkshire chippy - and the author was there to serve up the fish suppers.

First-time novelist Jill Robinson teamed up with old friends Carmel and Vic Jedry, who own Cookes Fisheries, in Long Street, Easingwold, to sell signed copies of Berringden Brow: Memoirs Of A Single Parent With A Crush.

Every copy of the book sold in the fish and chip shop on Saturday, priced at £6.95, came with a free fish supper.

The book is set in Berringden Brow, a fictional Yorkshire village, and is a comic account of several months in the life of Jess, a single mother with teenage children who is trying to find an eligible man.

Ms Robinson, who like her heroine admits to being a woman of a certain age, said she met the Jedrys 20 years ago when they all lived at South Milford, near Selby, and they have kept in touch ever since.

She has since moved to Halifax and the Jedrys moved to Easingwold, but when they read the book they were so impressed that they wanted to help and invited her to come to the shop.

The author said: "The book is about a woman coping with stroppy teenage kids, ageism, sexism and sizeism, a bit like Bridget Jones's older sister."

Updated: 11:34 Wednesday, December 05, 2001