The Tightrope Walkers

It is 1968 and Flixe Suvarov recently widowed and frighteningly short of money is struggling to come to terms with her new life. Running a small party-planning business as she nurses a potential political career she does everything she can to keep her family together.<br><Br>Andrew her elder son has fallen in love with her goddaughter the beautiful capricious Amanda Wallington. But Amanda is involved with people whose backgrounds are intimately - and unhappily - linked with those of her mother Julia and Flixe. They have no idea just how intimate Amanda has become with her new friends - and Amanda cannot even guess how their pas could damage her future.<br><br>It is only as Flixe emerges from her shell of unhappiness and finds her own life miraculously transformed that she begins to understand what threatens them all . . .<br><br>The final volume in The Threaded Dances series. Read more Daphne Wright in <i>The Longest Winter</i>.<br><br>'Pointedly contrasting love - the rocketing out of control of the young with the caution and much nicer generosity of the middle-aged - the novel possesses the perennial virtues of a good story craftsmanship and a sympathetic central character' Lizzie Buchan <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>'I found it very compelling... it really is a marvellous read' Joanna Trollope