Sugar and Snails

<h2>The past lingers on etched beneath our skin ...</h2><p>At fifteen Diana Dodworth took the opportunity to radically alter the trajectory of her life and escape the constraints of her small-town existence. Thirty years on she can't help scratching at her teenage decision like a scabbed wound.To safeguard her secret she's kept other people at a distance... until Simon Jenkins sweeps in on a cloud of promise and possibility. But his work is taking him to Cairo and he expects Di to fly out for a visit. She daren't return to the city that changed her life; nor can she tell Simon the reason why.Sugar and Snails takes the reader on a poignant journey from Diana's misfit childhood through tortured adolescence to a triumphant mid-life coming-of-age that challenges preconceptions about bridging the gap between who we are and who we feel we ought to be.</p>