It is Spring in West London where Charley is in the throes of a mid-life divorce. Her daughter is at university and blames her mother for the divorce. Her widowed mother has just moved into a retirement home and is not happy. Her about-to-be ex-husband is still an unsettling influence. Her best friend is being supportive, but their relationship has changed. Then she meets Paul. As the Summer progresses Charley becomes aware that we believe what we want to believe.
Sandy King was born in Sussex and has lived in Toronto, Madrid, Germany and France. She has written for numerous publications as a freelancer, but Deceit, a light-hearted look at the deceptions in family life, is her first novel. Now living in Oxfordshire with her husband and Caspar the cat, she is devoting her time to her grandchildren and writing fiction.