Life Begins by Amanda Brookfield

Life Begins by Amanda Brookfield

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If Life Begins at Forty, then Charlotte Turner's not off to the best of starts. On top of a recent divorce, a failed attempt to move house and trouble with her twelve-year-old son, the husband of her closest friend has just started to show a bit too much interest in her as a newly-single woman.

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Life Begins by Amanda Brookfield

As her 40th birthday approaches Charlotte is freed at last from an unhappy marriage, eager to embrace a new future. Blessed with Sam, her 12 year old son, a tight circle of female friends, a comfortable part-time job in a book shop and a new admirer, life is looking up. Yet each step Charlotte makes towards the better tomorrow is thwarted. She puts her house on the market but it won’t sell; her girlfriends treat her differently now that she is single; and the perceptions of their husbands shift too, in an even more unwelcome way. And then Sam starts getting in to trouble at school. Besieged by complications, Charlotte realises that she can no longer blame a floundering marriage for her woes. Then a chance revelation and some unwanted memories cause her to reappraise her past. Uncomfortable truths emerge, calling into question the version of her life to which she has clung for thirty years, until help and inspiration arrive from the most unexpected quarter. . .
Amanda Brookfield was born in 1960 and educated at University College, Oxford. She began her career working in advertising and then as a freelance journalist in Argentina. Her twelve previous novels include Marriage Games, Relative Love and The Simple Rules Of Love. She is married with two sons and lives in London.
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ISBN 13 9780718154820
ISBN 10 0718154827
Title Life Begins
Author Amanda Brookfield
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 2008-10-06
Number of pages 416
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.