Despite knowing its a mad idea, Lily agrees to take her mother on one last road trip around the UK, in this new novel by the bestselling author of His Other Woman.
This trip will be challenging because Lilys mother can no longer be described as just a bit forgetful: Moira has started talking to imaginary friends and singing ABBA songs in public, and last week she began emptying boxes of cereal onto the floor in the supermarket.
Lily is worried and embarrassed by her mothers behavior but, despite her recent dementia diagnosis, Moira is happyalbeit in a sweary sort of wayand insists the journey will help her write a memoir.
As they trundle across the country in an ancient VW campervan, Lily feels the strain as she struggles to deal with her mothers decline, her own daughters criticism and her ex-husbands upcoming wedding plans to a younger woman. One night, leaving Moira alone in the hotel, Lily meets a man in a bar and, for the first time in years, she feels alive.
This road trip was intended to celebrate the past. But will it end in crisis, or might Lilys chance encounter help build a new future for this fractured family?
Praise for Sarah Edghills A Thousand Tiny Disappointments
Thoroughly gripping . . . Sarah Edghill knows how to pinpoint what goes on in families. Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
An accomplished, moving and ultimately uplifting novel. Hannah Persaud, author of The Codes of Love
Genre: General Fiction
This trip will be challenging because Lilys mother can no longer be described as just a bit forgetful: Moira has started talking to imaginary friends and singing ABBA songs in public, and last week she began emptying boxes of cereal onto the floor in the supermarket.
Lily is worried and embarrassed by her mothers behavior but, despite her recent dementia diagnosis, Moira is happyalbeit in a sweary sort of wayand insists the journey will help her write a memoir.
As they trundle across the country in an ancient VW campervan, Lily feels the strain as she struggles to deal with her mothers decline, her own daughters criticism and her ex-husbands upcoming wedding plans to a younger woman. One night, leaving Moira alone in the hotel, Lily meets a man in a bar and, for the first time in years, she feels alive.
This road trip was intended to celebrate the past. But will it end in crisis, or might Lilys chance encounter help build a new future for this fractured family?
Praise for Sarah Edghills A Thousand Tiny Disappointments
Thoroughly gripping . . . Sarah Edghill knows how to pinpoint what goes on in families. Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
An accomplished, moving and ultimately uplifting novel. Hannah Persaud, author of The Codes of Love
Genre: General Fiction
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