Publisher's Synopsis
'She can be as subtle as Austen, as sharp as Bronte. Trollope's brilliant' - FAY WELDON 'Richly satisfying' - LONDON EVENING STANDARD 'Absorbing, uplifting and truly impressive' - DAILY EXPRESS Simon Stockdale spells it out for his son, Jack: 'Your grandfather is proposing to leave your grandmother to whom he has been married for forty years and marry a woman with whom he has been having an affair for seven years'. 'Grando?' marvels Jack. What can this mean to a boy in the throes of his first love affair? Or to Simon's wife, Carrie, who always thought her wronged mother-in-law was one of the most self-pitying women she'd ever met anyway? And what of the mistress - a barrister who has fallen in love with a judge twice her age? What if she isn't just 'His Honour's totty', as one court official labels her? What if she's the real thing?
