Before We Say Goodbye

When Julia Lane's mother dies, she leaves behind an apology Julia could never have expected. Years ago, during a disastrous second marriage, Maggie Lane did everything in her power to end a love affair between the teenage Julia and her stepbrother Richie. To all intents and purposes Richie was made to disappear. Now, twenty years later, Julia has his address ? and her mother's blessing to seek him out. 'Follow your heart,' Maggie writes, 'and put right my mistake.' It sounds like nothing more than a romantic last wish, certainly not a instruction for a grown woman with a husband she loves and two sons in their teens. But, struggling with grief and tormented by memories, she makes the decision to travel to the small coastal town where Richie now lives with his young daughter Wren. Rediscovering her first love and falling for him a second time, Julia realises that this is the life she had always imagined for herself, the one she has wanted all along. But where does that put the family she has left behind?


Genre: General Fiction