Love and Other Secrets
By (Author) Sarah Challis
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
4th March 2010
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
512
Width 132mm, Height 196mm, Spine 33mm
408g
Florence has never forgiven Jane for the circumstances of her birth. She was an accident, the product of Jane s first and only one-night-stand, and Flo does not want to know how hard her teenage mother fought to keep her.
When Flo s own, carefully planned, baby arrives, and her glossy, controlled world is turned upside down, for the first time in her life she turns to her mother for help. Holding her newborn grandson, Jane is suddenly overwhelmed by memories she s buried for decades of the tumultuous year when Flo was born: her parents fury, the new freedoms of 1960s London passing her by, and the rash consequences of the overwhelming love for her child.Praise for Sarah Challis's writing: 'I really enjoyed TURNING FOR HOME...I thought it so perceptive... I particularly enjoyed the very touching romance * Rosamunde Pilcher *
Excellently-written, with a gripping ending * Wiltshire Times *
Touching, funny and exciting * Blackmore Vale magazine *
Sarah Challis is becoming a novelist to be reckoned with * Dorset Life *
Her evocation of the English countryside is elegiac...a pleasure to read * Oxford Times *
Sarah Challis, whose father is the distinguished cinematographer, Christopher Challis, travelled widely with film units as a child. She has since lived in Scotland and California but is now happily settled in a Dorset village. She is married with four sons.