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A story of loss, evolving friendship and self discovery.
Hilary has never left home and at fifty-five uncomplainingly looks after her progressively disabled but feisty mother.
Hilary's mother dies suddenly and she is thrown into a spiral of despair. With support from her friends she lifts herself out of her despondency, and begins to come to terms with the loss, until the discovery of a manuscript amongst her mother's things throws her into turmoil. How could she have lived with someone for so long and not had an inkling of their history?
With no one else in her life, she again turns to her friends for help and in spite of their own troubles they rally round to help her through.
About the author
Jacqueline James is a retired GP now living in Cambridge. Born in Solihull she went to Sheffield University Medical School, qualifying in 1980 and, after a stint in hospitals, became a GP and family planning doctor, first in inner city Sheffield and then in rural Cambridgeshire. She retired in 2016 after thirty years as a GP and in 2021 her first novel, 'Rude Awakening' was published. This is its sequel.
