All I Ever Wanted
By (Author) Lucy Dillon
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder Paperback
14th March 2017
1st December 2016
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
464
Width 131mm, Height 199mm, Spine 29mm
318g
From the bestselling author of A Hundred Pieces of Me and One Small Act of Kindness comes a heartwarming, bittersweet and uplifting story of missed chances and unexpected opportunities.
'Lucy Dillon's books make the world a better place' - HeatCaitlin's life is a mess. Her marriage to a man everyone else thinks is perfect has collapsed, along with her self-esteem, and breaking free seems the only option.Nancy, her four-year-old daughter, used to talk all the time; in the car, at nursery, to her brother Joel. Then her parents split up. Her daddy moves out. And Nancy stops speaking.Nancy's Auntie Eva, recently widowed and feeling alone, apart from the companionship of two bewildered pugs, is facing a future without her husband or the dreams she gave up for him.But when Eva agrees to host her niece and nephew once a fortnight, Caitlin and Eva are made to face the different truths about their marriages - and about what they both really want . . .'Bittersweet, lovely and ultimately redemptitive; the kind of book that makes you want to live your own life better' - Jojo Moyes'So satisfying and clever and deeply moving' - Sophie KinsellaI always find Lucy Dillon's books so overflowing with wit and wisdom. - Jenny Colgan
Lucy Dillon's books make the world a better place - HeatA beautifully written story about friendship, trust and love. I adored it. - Milly JohnsonGrown up chick lit at its best. I loved it. - Daily MailClever and sweet . . . Jenny Colgan and Sophie Kinsella are fans - RedPraise for A HUNDRED PIECES OF ME - :Such a brilliant book. So satisfying and clever and deeply moving. - Sophie KinsellaA totally feelgood novel about the importance of living life to the full. - SunLucy Dillon was born in Cumbria in 1974. Lucy won the Romantic Novelists' Association Contemporary Romantic Novel Award in 2015 for A HUNDRED PIECES OF ME and their Novel of the Year Award in 2010 for LOST DOGS AND LONELY HEARTS. She is the bestselling author of THE BALLROOM CLASS, WALKING BACK TO HAPPINESS, THE SECRET OF HAPPY EVER AFTER and ONE SMALL ACT OF KINDNESS.