Deze auteur put uit haar Noord-Engelse achtergrond om haar bestsellers te verrijken. Haar verhalen komen tot leven door nuchtere personages, die hen levendige authenticiteit verlenen en met zowel humor als ontroering zijn geschreven. Ondanks fysieke uitdagingen schrijft ze gestaag en deelt ze haar verhalende stem met lezers.
A sequel to "A Better World Than This", which won the Romantic Novelists' Award. It is 1947. The war is over, but life is still very harsh. Following the death of her husband Joshua, the indomitable Daisy Penny resolves to sell her boarding-house in Blackpool and start a new life in the country.
They lived worlds apart. Jenny was the girl from the cat-meat shop, born into squalor and defeat. Paul Tunstall was a soldier and a gentleman, arrogant and charming, with his silver-light eyes and boyish smile. And yet from the moment they met there was a spark between them - and their separate lives of pain and loneliness seemed to beckon to each other.