A Different View

by Jane Hatton

Dot’s social position in the seaside town of
Embridge defines her lifetime’s achievement, so that when her openly despised
son-in-law becomes a celebrity overnight, making her a laughing stock among
those she has always considered her friends, her humiliation is complete.
Shrewd enough to realise that she can’t expect much help from her alienated
daughters, her ex-husband, or her stepson, she prepares to face it out alone,
and is therefore very much shaken when she finds that she isn’t alone at all,
and that help will come from some very unexpected places.
Further west, the granddaughter of Dot’s late first husband - best-selling
novelist Elizabeth Ballantyne, whom due to a family feud Dot hasn’t seen
since she was two - is trying to dump her arrogant, conceited boyfriend, Paul,
who is proving difficult to dislodge, and the already complicated Nankervis
family tree is due for a high wind through its branches when their interests,
and those of the family in general, converge at a family christening in
Cornwall….

648 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 6, 2014