Publisher's Synopsis
"Wickedly funny" DAILY MAIL Her deliciously witty new bestseller Alice has a scrupulously organised, comfortable life in West London with Noel - her second husband whose main ambition in life is to sharpen his golf handicap in time for retirement. But when Alice's once-famous bohemian mother Jocelyn, residing in shabby splendour in a crumbling cliff-top house in Cornwall, becomes ill, Alice, with her daughter and stepson, goes to look after her. She is appalled by what she finds. Her glorious childhood home is falling into decay, her brother and his wife are not too fussy about the domestic arrangements, and their twin sons run wild. Alice's children love the freedom and beauty that they discover in Cornwall, and Alice herself begins to wonder whether her chosen way of life is necessarily the right one...
