£11.99 Large Format Paperback
ISBN: 9781844134465

Louisa Forrester, who has come to Scotland in search of a new life, has enrolled on a creative writing course at the renowned Glendrochatt Arts Centre and it is here that she meets Marnie Donovan, a young American woman who has traveled to Scotland to find answers to questions from her past. Isobel Grant, who runs the centre with her husband Giles, is also facing unexpected challenges which could affect the future of her whole family. All are at a crisis point.

Initially Louisa and Marnie dislike each; also on the course is enigmatic Christopher Piper, who has his own secrets. All must confront the truth about themselves and the choices they need to make.

'A beautifully written story of three women and three uncertain futures'

Publishing News - Friday 19 January 2007
Sue Baker's selection of forthcoming titles

"Satisfaction guaranteed with Nickson's second novel, and for all book groupies an added bonus with the literary setting - a beautiful Scottish house and Arts Centre, where a very mixed group of people come together for a writing course. If only it were real - Nickson makes you want to drop everything and enroll immediately. Her love of Scotland is conveyed in stereo, her characters are an endearing lot, and there's mystery, too, buried in Marnie Donovan's childhood. you couldn't get a better moist-eyed ending..."