The Wilde family is an ordinary one, close and supportive – so what are they to make of their daughter-in-law Niecey, who seems to have no parents, no friends, no past?
Sally-Ann has never been further from home than Scarborough. She is suffocating in her parents’ house, fed up with their old-fashioned rules and bored with her job. Then Terry comes in to the library where she works to look at maps for his “trip around the world”.
As deaths mount during the coronavirus pandemic a retired history teacher reflects on the much greater personal impact of the death of her sister 12 years before.
Something – or someone – is missing from Joan’s life, and Bill’s, and Viv’s.
A novel of road trips, crises and confusion.
Growing up in the 50s and 60s.
A Novel of friendship and memory.
The way things were.
A novel inspired by the stories my mother told me.
Secrets are what holds the family together.
A novel about parents and children.
