Stepping Up

<p><b><i>'Stop EVERYTHING and read this! Funny tender and beautifully observed. Loved loved LOVED it!' Cathy Bramley Sunday Times bestselling author</i></b><br><b><br>Beth has never stuck at anything.</b><br><br>She's quit more jobs and relationships than she can remember and she still sleeps in her childhood bedroom. It's not that she hasn't <i>tried </i>to grow up it's just that so far the only commitment she's held down is Friday drinks at the village pub. <br><br><b>Then in the space of a morning her world changes. </b><br><br>An unspeakable tragedy turns Beth's life upside down and she finds herself guardian to her teenage niece and toddler nephew catapulted into an unfamiliar world of bedtime stories parents' evenings and cuddly elephants. Having never been responsible for anyone - or anything - it's not long before she feels seriously out of her depth.<br><br><b>What if she's simply not up to the job?</b><br><br>With a little help from her best friend Jory (purely platonic of course ...) and her lovely lonely next-door neighbour Albert Beth is determined that this time she's not giving up. It's time to step up. <br><br><i>This is a story about digging deep for strength you never knew you had and finding magic in things that were there all along. </i></p>