‚Written from the heart … honest,inspirational and great fun … I loved it‘ Janie Millman ‚This book is delicious. As moreish as a freshly made sandwich, full of your favourite filling. It’s well worth the wait and joyous to bite into‘ Jo Thomas ‚The perfect pick-me-up that you won’t be able to put down. I loved it‘ Matt Dunn The emotional, uplifting and completely relatable new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Milly Johnson. Shay Bastable is the woman in the middle. She is part of the sandwich generation – caring for her parents and her children, supporting her husband Bruce, holding them all together and caring for them as best she can. Then the arrival of a large orange skip on her mother’s estate sets in motion a cataclysmic series of events which leads to the collapse of Shay’s world. She is forced to put herself first for a change. But in order to move forward with her present, Shay needs to make sense of her past. And so she returns to the little village she grew up in, to uncover the truth about what happened to her when she was younger. And in doing so, she discovers that sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to find the only way is up. Praise for Milly Johnson: ‘The feeling you get when you read a Milly Johnson book should be bottled and made available on the NHS’ Debbie Johnson ‚Every time you discover a new Milly book, it’s like finding a pot of gold‘ heat ‚A glorious, heartfelt novel‘ Rowan Coleman ‘Absolutely loved it. Milly’s writing is like getting a big hug with just the right amount of bite underneath. I was rooting for Bonnie from the start‘ Jane Fallon ‘Bursting with warmth and joie de vivre’ Jill Mansell ‘Warm; optimistic and romantic’ Katie Fforde
ISBN: 978-1-4711-9902-8
