Sally Lachlan has a secret that has haunted her for a decade. But perhaps it is time to let it go. A chance meeting with geneticist Anthony Blake reawakens her desire for happiness and at the same time her daughter Charlie shows signs of wanting to know more about her father. Both the past and the future are places Sally prefers not to think about. But if she wants to move towards a brighter future, she will first have to come to terms with her long-ago marriage. Only by delving deep into the past will she be able to be honest with Charlie. And herself.

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This is a love story - of the love between a man and a woman, and between a mother and a daughter. The themes are contemporary - female friendship, single parenthood, the nature of memory, and above all middle-class domestic violence.  

The story is also a tale of redemption, of new hopes and fresh beginnings.