Book description
 Nail-biting drama If you like Silk, you will love this ' On
the eve of her 39th birthday, top barrister Ophelia Dormandy decides
she is going to make amends. Tonight, after months of late nights at
her desk, she's going to return home early, cook a special supper Â-
maybe even wear that red dress Patrick once said he liked. But Ophelia
is in for a shock. After 20 years together, her husband announces he's
been having an affair, and leaves. Her home life implodes, and work
soon follows suit Â- before long, she's broke, drinking too much and
falling for a client of questionable innocence. And then she is faced
with the most serious trial of her life, when a disgruntled defendant
comes back to haunt her, threatening everything that she holds dearÂ
Clare Jacob was brought up in London and New York. She read English
at Oxford and became a barrister because she loved John Donne. After
years of defending clients accused variously of bomb-making, hiding
cocaine in coconuts and stealing under-pants, she decided to capture the
lunacy and mystery of it all in a novel. She is married with three
children.
