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Sarah Penn and Maggie Reave are sisters, as different as a tabby and a tiger. Sarah has married kind, reliable Leo and settled contentedly into small-town life. Maggie, light-hearted and footloose, has spent fifteen years drifting round the world with a backpack and a cheerful willingness to do any menial job as long as it has no future.
But now Maggie has come home, pregnant, and undecided whether or not to keep the baby. And as she discusses this with her sister, lets slip that she's had an abortion before, and that the father was Maggie's husband. This throws everything into confusion, but Christmas brings reconciliation and a new baby.
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Clever, humane, elegant and wise. Like the Dutch masters, who saw beauty in a woman sewing, or cracking eggs, and whose calm elegance her prose recalls, she sees the fragility and strangeness that are present in even the most commonplace of lives, if only one knows how to look.
Families are funny things - in real life, as in the novels of Libby Purves. . . Still, all's well that ends well - as things usually do in the novels of the perceptive Ms Purves.
Purves tackles a number of topical issues head-on, while astutely depicting family life
Most gripping . . . erupts with extraordinary and unexpected force. (David Shukman, Daily Mail)
A satisfying cocktail of sexual politics and common sense. (East Anglian Daily Times)
Calm eye, coherent thought and deft plotting . . . A thoughtful and compelling read with a wise message for modern parents. (Wigan Evening Post)
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A very modern love story, exploring the lives - and traps - facing women of three generations.
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- PublisherHodder Paperbacks
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0340823771
- ISBN 13 9780340823774
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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