Relative Love

<h2><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>The Harrison family gathers as usual for Christmas in their big Sussex house.</span></h2><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>This year however outside realities are pressing hard: Pamela and John married for four decades know that time is catching up with them. And trouble is brewing in the lives of their four children.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Cassie the cossetted youngest is in the throes of an affair with a married man; Elizabeth her awkward older sister is struggling with a faltering second marriage; Peter the eldest and designated inheritor of Ashley House is beginning to meet resistance to such a prospect from his career-orientated wife.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Only Charlie the charming and carefree younger son and his wife Serena seem truly content with nothing to worry about except their adolescent twin girls and the simpler teething troubles of their toddler.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Absorbed in their own lives not one of them is prepared when real tragedy strikes rocking their world to its core changing them all forever.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>What readers are saying about Amanda Brookfield:</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'I've loved all Amanda Brookfield's books and this latest one was excellent too. </span><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>She writes so well</strong><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)> with insight and natural dialogue.'</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'</span><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>I could read it again I read it so fast</strong><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)> I couldn't put it down. Very well written. I will definitely read more from this author in the future.'</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'</span><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Brilliant book</strong><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)> - just when I thought I knew what was going to happen another twist popped up - had me picking it up whenever I had the chance.'</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'A great story great characters vivid immediate so 'real' and such compassion. Every bit a page turner as Brookfield so gets you into her people. Only my second (Good Girls was a lucky dip first) but am hooked. If you like reading really </span><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>well written real-life novels</strong><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)> about your relationships try this.'</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'I enjoyed Amanda Brookfield's writing style. She really taps into her characters and writes them warts and all with some </span><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>raw and honest emotions</strong><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>.'</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Praise for Amanda Brookfield</strong><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>:</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'An engaging emotionally-charged and intriguing story' Michelle Gorman</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield.' The Mirror</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'Unputdownable. Perceptive. Poignant. I loved it.' bestselling author Patricia Scanlan on Before I Knew You</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>'If Joanna Trollope is the queen of the Aga Saga then Amanda Brookfield must be a strong contender for princess.' Oxford Times</span></p>