Deborah McKinlay – författare

From first month nausea through to wedded bliss, fish fingers and smooching in the kitchen, here is everything that men have never known about women and women have always known, but never admitted about men.

Reminiscent of ONE DAY meets 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD, THAT PART WAS TRUE is a bittersweet story about falling in love and risking it all.'A delicate romance, beautifully achieved' Wendy Holden, DAILY MAIL'A sweet and tender romance, that is also extremely funny' SUNDAY MIRRORWhen Eve Petworth writes to Jackson Cooper to praise a scene in one of his books, they discover a mutual love of cookery and food. As their letters criss-cross the ocean that lies between them, friendship and then romance blossoms despite Jackson's colourful love life and Eve's tense relationship with her soon-to-be-married daughter. Little by little, Eve and Jack begin to believe that they may have a chance to change their lives and possibly get a second chance at happiness. They just need to actually meet...

In Lily's care, a walled garden at an old country estate begins to blossom and the greening magic of this new life touches each of Motthoe's cast of idiosyncratic inhabitants. But in the midst of this community blossoming, dark hints and ill-omens suggest Lily's grim history can be run from no longer.