It Happened One Summer

From the author of THE RISE AND FALL OF A YUMMY MUMMY comes IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER -a funny, poignant page-turner about family dysfunctions, coming of age and forgiving your mother. ''Williams writes with deadly, witty accuracy about modern life'' Sophie Kinsella

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...