Book description
Just when she has resigned herself to being alone long-term, Marina
Ffench, a widow in her forties, meets a man and falls in love all over
again. A mid-life relationship, she thinks, will be straightforward -
kids reared, careers established, mortgages almost paid off . . .
However, mid-life passion carries excess baggage. Luke, her man, may
have a gorgeous villa on the Italian Lakes, but he also has a pious
and eccentric Irish mammy, an Italian ex-lover who is as invasive as
dry rot, and a son embroiled in a suspect engagement. And Marina has
to admit that her own life is just as complicated - and getting more
so by the day, given the number of stray souls and ghosts from the
past that are turning up in her Cork home.
Gradually, she and Luke come to see that love second time around is
hard work. But in their efforts to find a happy ending for everyone,
unwittingly they are creating a disaster that may destroy their shared
future and the happiness of both families . . .
Having grown up in a diplomat's family, and later having worked as a
translator in the Middle East, Denyse Devlin travelled extensively and
had many homes around the world before settling down in Co. Cork in the
late 1980s. She lives there with her husband and their two teenage
daughters.
If Not Now . . .
is her fifth novel.
