A Friend of the Family

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A contemporary novel which combines the intriguing subjects of surrogacy and obsessive love. Tina and Steve seem like the golden couple: rich, good looking with everything they could want except a child of their own. Tina is a very beautiful but temperamental former model, Steve a successful businessman with international interests, but he also wants to develop his stately home in the country as a garden centre and leisure complex. The lynchpin to this enterprise is Louise who, though not unattractive, is solid and sensible and has loyally and devotedly worked for Steve for a number of years, since before his marriage to Tina which came as a shock to her. Louise becomes obsessed with Steve. Her wish to be more closely bound to him leads her to make the radical suggestion that she should be a surrogate mother to his much wanted child by Tina. The consequences of this offer and the effect it has on the relationships not only of the three people most intimately concerned, but also their family and friends, is the subject of this riveting novel.

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Nicola Thorne perceptive storytelling skills have won her an army of fans. She is the author of a number of well-known novels which include Champagne Gold, Trophy Wife, Worlds Apart and Old Money. Born in South Africa, she was convent educated and completed her studies at the LSE. Nicola always wanted to pursue a literary career, and while she wrote her early novels, she also worked as an editor for a publishing house. Since then she has written over forty novels in various genres gothic, historical, contemporary nearly half a million of which are borrowed in the UK public libraries every year. She has also been translated into most of the worlds main languages, including Japanese. For many years she lived in London, but has now made her home in Dorset, the scene of her latest novel The Broken Bough.