
A single woman at loose ends becomes the object of two men's affections--a father and his teenage son--in this sly, richly drawn novel ? After more than twenty years in London, Kate Flynn has returned to her family home in Wales to care for her aging mother. Having cast off her...

After more than twenty years in London, Kate Flynn has abandoned her career as an academic, rented her apartment in the city, and moved back to live with her mother in the grand old house beside a lake where she grew up. Bored and lonely, Kate meets a childhood friend, David...

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