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As her 40th birthday approaches Charlotte is freed at last from an unhappy marriage, eager to embrace a new future. Blessed with Sam, her 12 year old son, a tight circle of female friends, a comfortable part-time job in a book shop and a new admirer, life is looking up.
Yet each step Charlotte makes towards the better tomorrow is thwarted. She puts her house on the market but it won’t sell; her girlfriends treat her differently now that she is single; and the perceptions of their husbands shift too, in an even more unwelcome way. And then Sam starts getting in to trouble at school.
Besieged by complications, Charlotte realises that she can no longer blame a floundering marriage for her woes. Then a chance revelation and some unwanted memories cause her to reappraise her past. Uncomfortable truths emerge, calling into question the version of her life to which she has clung for thirty years, until help and inspiration arrive from the most unexpected quarter. . .
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Through her characters, Brookfield skillfully illuminates the relationship9s, dilemmas and compromises that define so many lives (Sunday Express)
Few contemporary British novelists writing today explore the messy tangles of close human relationships with quite such warm perceptiveness as Brookfield (Daily Mirror)
What is refreshing here is the author's conspicuous sanity and her sharp line in defence of reason... It could be sentimental, but it isn't (Guardian)
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Few contemporary British novelists writing today explore the messy tangles of close human relationships with quite such warm perceptiveness as Brookfield (Daily Mirror)
What is refreshing here is the author's conspicuous sanity and her sharp line in defence of reason... It could be sentimental, but it isn't (Guardian)
If Life Begins at Forty, then Charlotte Turner's not off to the best of starts. On top of a recent divorce, a failed attempt to move house and trouble with her twelve-year-old son, the husband of her closest friend has just started to show a bit too much interest in her as a newly-single woman. No longer able to blame everything on a floundering marriage, Charlotte is forced to open her eyes and embark on an emotional joourney into her past. Only when she has faced some challenging and revealing truths can she finally shed the unhappy skin she's become so used to, and open up her life - and her heart - to all the promise and possibility that her future holds.
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- PublisherMichael Joseph
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0718154827
- ISBN 13 9780718154820
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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