Book description
It is 1968 and Flixe Suvarov, recently widowed and frighteningly short
of money, is struggling to come to terms with her new life. Running a
small party-planning business as she nurses a potential political
career, she does everything she can to keep her family together. Andrew,
her elder son, has fallen in love with her goddaughter, the beautiful,
capricious Amanda Wallington. But Amanda is involved with people whose
backgrounds are intimately - and unhappily - linked with those of her
mother, Julia, and Flixe. They have no idea just how intimate Amanda has
become with her new friends - and Amanda cannot even guess how their pas
could damage her future. It is only as Flixe emerges from her shell of
unhappiness and finds her own life miraculously transformed that she
begins to understand what threatens them all . . . 'Pointedly
contrasting love - the rocketing out of control of the young, with the
caution and much nicer generosity of the middle-aged - the novel
possesses the perennial virtues of a good story, craftsmanship and a
sympathetic central character' Lizzie Buchan, Sunday Times 'I found it
very compelling… it really is a marvellous read' Joanna Trollope
Daphne Wright is a historical novelist with a special interest in the
way wars have liberated women. Born in London, she worked in publishing
for ten years before becoming a writer. After six historical novels, she
turned to crime under the pseudonym of Natasha Cooper. She now divides
her time between the city and the Somerset Levels.
