Growing Up for Beginners

<h2><strong>It's not easy being a grown-up but Eleanor hoped she'd be better at it by now...</strong></h2><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>When Eleanor waves her daughter off for a gap-year trip she finds herself stuck as a satellite wife spinning in faithful orbit around her domineering husband with only her clever but judgmental father Conrad for comfort.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Andrew isn't mastering the art of growing up either. But when he finds his belongings dumped in bin bags on the drive even he can see that his girlfriend is hinting he should move out. With no other options he moves back in with his parents.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Backing onto their garden lives artist Cecilia living in chaotic clutter and dreaming of her ex-lovers still acting like a stroppy teenager at the age of 66.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Four lives are drawn together by long-buried secrets of the past and it is time for them all to grow up... before it's too late.</strong></p><h2>What readers are saying about <em>Growing Up for Beginners:</em></h2><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'The characterisation is brilliant and the astute storytelling punctuated by stiletto-sharp wit produces an effervescent and </span><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>spirit-lifting</strong><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)> story.' </span><em style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Sunday Mirror</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'A poignant and beautifully articulated tale of love and loss memory and forgetting grief and guilt new love and letting go. </span><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>I was engrossed</strong><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)> often tearful and finally uplifted.' </span><em style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Isobel Wolff</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'Simply wonderful.</strong><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)> I was totally enchanted devoured it in a day and have been raving about it ever since.'</span><em style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)> Fiona Walker</em></p>