A funny, poignant page-turner about family dysfunctions, coming of age and forgiving your mother. And falling in love... Nell Stockdale is in a pretty good place, managing to combine a full-on career with single motherhood; a lovely flat, great girlfriends, and a sexy younger man on the scene. But her mother is very ill. Will she return to the family s large, damp Cornish farmhouse to care for her? Normally Nell keeps her family at arm s length. Her sister is engaged to Nell's ex big love, and she has never got on with her eccentric, distant mother. But something powerful is pulling her back to Cornwall...