A warm new novelist of family life, for fans of Erica James and Katie Fforde
Alice's world is blown apart when her husband Rob dies suddenly of a heart attack - in another woman's bed. Only 40, Rob was an energetic, opinionated, handsome local GP. This wasn't supposed to happen. Left to manage their home, three teenage children and a recalcitrant parrot, Alice struggles to hold it all together.Working herself at Rob's old surgery as a GP, she finds herself caught up in the designs of Rob's old partner, who owns the premises and wants to sell. And distracted by the good looks of locum Tom x. Her best friend Martha claims all she needs is a new man - but Alice knows it goes deeper than that. She's got to find a way to make her children happy, and work out a future for all of them ...
Joanna Bell is a GP who lives in a Suffolk cottage with her husband, six children and a vast number of thatch spiders. She was one of the first women at Caius College Cambridge, but has also worked as a night poeter and a topless dancer. She spends her spare time giving lifts to her children. She is afraid of nothing, but even so, her husband deals with the spiders.
