A charming story of self-discoveryWhen Kate Armitage is made redundant, she spends her nest egg on the country cottage of her dreams, where she embarks on a new life, planning to write a novel. Despite the interventions of her new neighbours, Kate puts pen to paper, and as she retraces the history of her parents marriage she uncovers some truths about herself, and her lifelong search for love...
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Frances Paige has lived near the Lake District, in the North West England for many years. She paints and writes, and has completed over fourty novels. She is also known under the pseudonyms Jane Wallace and Jay Allerton. In 1975, her novel "Vote for a Silk Gown" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She went on to write many more novels as well as a Scottish saga which, it has been said, redefined the sub-genre and made her a model for budding authors everywhere.