Book description
Ellie Woods spends her days immersed in the escapist pages of the
romantic novels she lovingly edits. But her reality is somewhat less
rose-tinted. Once upon a time, Ellie had her 'happily ever after'
moment when she married her beloved Nick, but fifteen years later her
husband's tragic death leaves her alone with their
soon-to-become-a-teenager son, faced with a mountain of debt, and on
the verge of losing the family home.
On the brink of bankruptcy, Ellie finally succumbs to her sister's
well-meant bullying and decides to rent out some rooms. And all too
soon the indomitable Allegra with her love for all things lavender,
Sabine on secondment from Berlin and estranged from her two-timing
husband, and unreconstructed lads' mag aficionado Matt enter her
ordered but fragile existence - each with their own messy life in tow.
And Ellie finds herself forced to step out of the pages of the
romantic novels she hides behind, and learn to live - and love -
again.
Maybe a new chapter is about to begin for them all...
Rowan Coleman worked in bookselling and then publishing for seven
years during which time she wrote her first novel,
Growing Up Twice
, published in 2002. She left to write her second novel,
After Ever After
and now lives in Hertfordshire with her son and daughter.
The Happy
Home for Broken Hearts
is her eighth novel.
