Publisher's Synopsis
"...a subversively witty novel..." - BOOKLIST "...thrilling...absorbing..." - AMAZON Candida Wilton arrives in London, alone, divorced and without much money. Yet she is strangely excited: what might happen to her now in her final years? She is prepared to fill her empty life with little events and pleasures, but she finds her horizons broadened by an unexpected windfall. Gathering together six travelling companions - women friends from childhood, from married life and after - Candida maps out the journey she has long dreamed of: to Tunis, Naples and Pompeii. Finally, she has realized that one can make anything happen, if one has the nerve...
