Attingendo alle sue origini dell'Inghilterra settentrionale, questa autrice arricchisce i suoi romanzi bestseller. Le sue storie prendono vita grazie a personaggi con i piedi per terra, che conferiscono loro una vivida autenticità, ed è scritta sia con umorismo che con partecipazione. Nonostante le sfide fisiche, scrive con costanza, condividendo la sua voce narrativa con i lettori.
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.