Home Truths - Hardcover

North, Freya

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 000721295X ISBN 13: 9780007212958

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2006

Synopsis

Freya North reunites her popular McCabe girls – sisters Cat, Fen and Pip – in her sexy, funny new novel.

Despite their mother having run off with a cowboy from Denver when they were small, and having been brought up in a draughty house in Derbyshire by their eccentric uncle Django, the McCabe girls actually consider themselves very normal and well-adjusted. Pip is stepmother to 10-year-old Tom, Fen has a young baby and Cat has returned to England to start a family. Their mid 30s are promising to be a time of comfort and contentment. However, at their uncle’s 70th birthday party, an unexpected guest arrives. Old family secrets are unearthed. Soon new bombshells are dropped. Each sister must confront her own identity crisis and handle the threat this places on relationships. Freya North has written a truthful, funny, sexy tale of mothers, daughters, lovers and liars.

About this title

About the Author

Freya North gave up a Ph.D. to write her first novel, Sally. For four years she turned deaf ears to parents and friends who pleaded with her to "get a proper job". She went on the dole and did a succession of freelance and temping jobs. Five publishers entered a bidding war for the book, and her first novel, Sally, was published to great acclaim. Her subsequent books, Chloe, Polly, Cat, Fen, Pip , Love Rules, Home Truths and Pillow Talk have all proved bestsellers.

From the Back Cover

Mothers, daughters, lovers, liars…

Brought up by their eccentric uncle Django, the McCabe sisters had assumed their mid-thirties would be a time of happiness and stability.

The youngest, Cat, returns home from four years abroad, to start a new phase of her life. Easy - or so she thinks.

Fen, the middle sister, is determined to be a better mother to her baby daughter than her own was to her - but might this be at the expense of her love-life?

And is the eldest, Pip, too busy taking care of her stepson, her husband, her sisters, her uncle - to notice her own needs?

At Django's 75th birthday party, secrets are revealed that will change how the three sisters view their family forever. Heart and home, previously intertwined, are shattered and identities called into question.

What do you do when you find out that your sisters aren't quite your sisters?

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 000721295X
• ISBN 13: 9780007212958
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464