The new bestseller from the country’s number one storyteller is a deeply moving and powerful tale of love and courage and a sacrifice no man should be asked to make. Her husband, Ben, killed himself; her brother in law was murdered; and her sister, Susan, abandoned her new born daughter, revealing the baby is Ben’s child. As she grows more disillusioned, Adam’s best friend Doug goes out of his way to be charming and attentive. Alice finds herself inexplicably drawn to Joe, but feeling it to be her duty, she goes ahead and marries Frank, not wishing to hurt him. In addition to that pain, she is also not on good terms with her mother, who somehow does not love her, and a sister whom her mother clearly loves.

Tom is Bridget’s husband and even if he is loyal and caring, he could not get comfortable in Bridget’s truth. Yet it is Ellie Armstrong’s home, and here she experiences love, a love that is hypnotic and fatally compelling. A new divorcee he can’t wait to get back in the game and sets about writing a list of all the things he has to do: / NOT sign up to the gym.

Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. One winter's night, in the coal-hole in her yard, Rosie finds that a woman sheltering there has been severely beaten by thugs. A very family based novel of two sisters and the turbulent times they have due to the younger sister getting away with everything a story of how money can turn into greed and spoil relationships with friends and family. I loved especially the characters of Bridget and Fanny, who live the truth of the single mums who struggle to live at their highest expectations for giving their children a better life than they had. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal.

She was offered a place at Cambridge University, but declined because she would have had to live away from home.

Yet just when she thinks her life is truly over, the kindness of one young girl brings her back from the brink of total devastation. As their journey takes them down some dark byways, will this be the one friendship that Maureen should have left firmly in the past?