A touching, deftly written debut that celebrates community and kindness Sunday Times Seventy-nine is too late for a second chance. Isnt it? Missy Carmichael is prickly, stubborn - and terribly lonely. Until a chance encounter in the park with two very different women opens the door to something new. Something wonderful. Missy was used to her small, solitary existence, listening to her footsteps echoing around the empty house, the tick-tick-tick of the watching clock. After all, she had made her life her way. Now another life is beckoning to Missy - if shes brave enough... A touching, deftly written debut that celebrates community and kindness Sunday Times Moving and optimistic... will delight readers right up to the very last page Stylist Bittersweet, tender, thoughtful and uplifting . . . I loved it Nina Stibbe A Sunday Times #6 hardback bestseller w/e 15th Feb
