Book description
Michelle Lawrence s perfect life has been just as she s designed it.
But then her husband, Chad, ruins everything by taking a job in San
Francisco, about as far from their comfortable family home as it s
possible to get without actually emigrating. Up until now, Chad s
primary focus has been keeping her happy, and Michelle can see no good
reason why this should change. But change it has, and Michelle now has
to deal with Chad s increasing detachment, while building a new life
with her two small children in a place filled with cat-eating coyotes.
On top of that, Michelle s oldest friend is turning against marriage
while her newest is a little too obsessed with clean taps. And down the
redwood-lined street, there s Aishe Herne, a woman who could pick a
fight with a silent order of nuns. Aishe has designed her own kind of
perfect life, in which there s room for her, her teenage son and no one
else. But when cousin Patrick lands in town like a Cockney nemesis, both
Aishe and Michelle must begin determined campaigns to regain their grip
on the steering wheel of their lives. Catherine Robertson was born in
Wellington. She left for a while to live in San Francisco and
Buckinghamshire, but is now back home. She lives in a house by the sea
with her husband who sheds bicycle bits, a black labrador who sheds
hair, a cat who sheds bits of whatever it s just eaten and two sons who
shed all of the above. Her first novel was The Sweet Second Life of
Darrell Kincaid. This is her second novel.
