Book description
Sophie Redlove has a crumbling Gothic mansion to restore, three
children to manage, a distraught friend - as well as possums in the
laundry at midnight. She loves her absent husband, Russell - but there's
an importunate older man who's after her, a slightly sycophantic younger
one, an angel and a Viking on the scene . . . And what the hell is
Russell up to? And indeed what's the story in Sophie's gradually
uncovered past that explains her dependence on those mysterious and
vulnerable creatures - men? This enthralling novel takes a touching,
tender and witty look at men and women and family life in the nineties,
as Sophie struggles with the increasing chaos in her life. Barbara
Else is the author of numerous best-selling novels and books for
children, and has edited a number of collections of stories for children
and Grandstands, in which top New Zealand writers talk about
grandparenthood. Her first novel, The Warrior Queen, was shortlisted for
the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. She was the Victoria University of
Wellington Writer in Residence for 1999. With her husband, writer Chris
Else, Barbara runs TFS, a Wellington-based literary agency and
assessment service.
