Book description
After twenty years of marriage, Ben ups and leaves his wife Rose, their
children and their family home in Dublin. Just like that: no words of
regret, no compromise, no note - only a simple 'I don't love you
anymore'. It has taken Rose all this time to get her life together
again: she's brought up her three children, Lisa, Brian and Damien
single-handedly, and not without difficulty for never again does she
want to be completely broke, or to have to revisit that night in
hospital with Damien hovering between life and death. To think about it
just makes her shudder. Now Rose is concentrating on her business, the
'Bonne Bouche' bakery, and all the clients she's won, all the friends
she's made. Her accounts are in order, the business is blooming. Life
really doesn't seem too bad. Until Ben returns, again without warning,
and it is soon clear that he expects to infiltrate Rose's carefully
created world in the most unwelcome of ways. A stunning sequel to In the
Beginning, Catherine Dunne's first novel, Something Like Love is an
astonishing portrait of a marriage, and of how the ties that bind are
sometimes there forever. Praise for Catherine Dunne: 'The Walled Garden
is that great rarity: a flawless novel' Daily Express 'A hugely
gratifying book; something to feed the spirit again and again' Irish
Independent Catherine Dunne was born in Dublin. After studying English
and Spanish at Trinity College, she became a teacher. Her first novel,
In the Beginning
, was published in 1997 and was translated into several languages. Her
most recent novels are The Walled Garden
and Another Kind of Life
. Her non-fiction book, An Unconsidered People
, was published in 2003 and has sold over 12,000 copies in Ireland
alone. Catherine Dunne lives in Dublin.
