‘Funny, poignant and beautifully written, this is an enchanting book’
Katie Fforde
One day 34-year-old Esther Fairchild sees a face in the crowd that brings back a past she’s been trying to forget. Memories flood back of her eccentric childhood, in which she and her brother were virtually left to fend for themselves in a large shabby house, surrounded by their parents’ rich collection of feckless ‘guests’.
Into this shambolic world came Donovan – regularly deposited by his unreliable mother – and Penny, Christian’s girlfriend and Esther’s idol. Until tragedy struck and shattered all their lives. But now, it seems, their lives are about to become intertwined once more …