Product Description

Looking back over the past forty years, Judith Chambers realises she has led a sad and lonely life. Her parents never loved each other, let alone their only daughter. And, by forcing Judith to stay at home and work in the family business, her parents stopped her from making friends or finding happiness. Then her father’s death gives her the chance to spread her wings. At first, she struggles to survive in the outside world, but just as she is making headway, an unexpected visitor from her past arrives. Not only does this threaten to destroy the new life she has built for herself, but it also forces her to deal with difficulties she is ill equipped to cope with. For Judith Chambers, though, there’s no going back.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #511668 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

About the Author
Lynda Page was born and brought up in Leicester. The eldest of four daughters, she left home at seventeen and has had a wide variety of office jobs. She lives in Leicester.

Customer Reviews

Start reading this, and there's no going back.
Our heroine is Judith Chambers, office manager at her Scrooge-like father's leather goods business. At his behest, she rules her staff with as much animosity as possible. But Judith is more sinned against than sinning, and at her father's unexpected death, she is also estranged from her equally cold mother. Judith has to fend for herself for the first time, and her frosty nature is suddenly a big impediment.

Admittedly, there's not much new in the way of ideas, and any potential surprises in the characters' relationships are heavily signposted. However, Lynda Page is such a gifted storyteller that this doesn't really matter. This is a thoroghly enjoyable and engrossing novel. The author offers a warm and humorous tale that only in its closing chapters begins to cloy.

If you've never read Lynda Page before, this is a good place to start. Her existing fans won't need any encouragement.