A heart-warming tapestry of love, laughter and acceptance. After eighteen years together, Meg and Alan Barratt have a companionable marriage - until an act of betrayal makes Meg question the basis of her entire life. Without the trust on which she's always believed their love was based, are her marriage, family and home all an illusion? As the new year dawns, she comes to realise that she owes it to her children to take up the reins again. An irresistible read...trusty Joanna Trollope turf; the very centre of Middle England INDEPENDENT
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.
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.
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.
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