Letting Go

by Pam Rhodes

"An excellent and moving read" - WOMAN'S WEEKLY "A touching and heart-warming novel of love, laughter and acceptance." - LUCKY BREAK Just before Christmas, Meg and Alan Barratt celebrate both the season and their eighteenth wedding anniversary, surrounded by friends and family. Within two days, that family is shattered by a shocking revelation which undermines everything Meg previously believed to be unbreakable - the bond of love and deep friendship she had always taken for granted in those closest to her. As both her husband and their volatile seventeen-year-old daughter, Emma, leave home, Meg begins the painful process of picking up the pieces for herself and their twelve-year-old son, Ben, whose partial deafness has made him the butt of bullying at school.

440 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Pam Rhodes for many years has presented the world’s numberone religious television program, Songs of Praise on BBC. She writes for the UK national newspaper, the Daily Mail, and is also a successful novelist—author of The Dunbridge Chronicles, With Hearts and Hymns and Voices, and four other novels, as well as a number of additional books.

Reviews

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Alan and Meg seperate and the book follows their path towards acceptance. Meg begins to look forward to her sons running coach dropping him home every day. She plans an 18th birthday party for her daughter alongside her husband. This was a nice easy read with a comfortably predicatable ending.

[Kathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Uncomfortable reading. a) typos in the book is always disturbing to me and b) some of the characters were just so annoying - Emma, Alan and Katherine in particular. Just wanted to punch them all in the nose (a term used a few times in the book). Pleased with the ending. Readable if not a little predictable.