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  • Published: 15 September 2002
  • ISBN: 9780552999335
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.95

Out Of Love




When does the ideal marriage turn sour - and why does the perfect couple break up?

It has been an idyllic summer, Tess reflects, as she packs up the Cornish holiday home in preparation for plunging back into the cold reality of normal life. An idyllic summer, and there will be more - so why does she feel awash with a nameless fear about returning home?

Alone at the holiday cottage for one last night with her young daughter - Mark and the boys have already returned home to London - she has the time, and the silence, to take stock of her life. A life, which, on the surface, has everything a woman could want. So why, now the children are growing up, does she want more? The dramatic decision she takes that night sets her off on a quite new journey - but one for which she may need the courage to travel alone...

  • Published: 15 September 2002
  • ISBN: 9780552999335
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.95

About the author

Diana Appleyard

Diana Appleyard is a writer, broadcaster and freelance journalist for a number of national newspapers and magazines. She worked for the BBC as an Education Correspondent, before deciding to give up her full-time job to work from home, a decision which formed the basis for her first novel, Homing Instinct. She lives with her husband Ross and their two young daughters in an Oxfordshire farmhouse. Her other novels A Class Apart, Out of Love, Every Good Woman Deserves a Lover and Playing with Fire are also published by Black Swan.

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Praise for Out Of Love

'Very, very true and touching... packs a huge emotional punch'

Sarah Harrison