Separate Beds
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4.3 • 11 Ratings
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- £3.99
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Publisher Description
Fall in love with the poignant and compelling novel about rediscovering true love from Elizabeth Buchan, bestselling author of The New Mrs Clifton
Annie and Tom seem to have everything - a lovely home, rewarding jobs and three healthy grown-up children.
But beneath the surface lies a secret guilt which ensures that whilst they live under the same roof, they sleep in separate beds. Then Tom comes home one evening and drops a bombshell that threatens to destroy everything they have left.
If Tom and Annie are to weather this storm together they must first face the past that lies between them. Yet will doing so only push them further apart?
Separate Beds is the heartwarming and captivating novel about the little acts of kindness that can reunite a family and rekindle a marriage.
Praise for Elizabeth Buchan:
'Gorgeously well-written - funny, sad, sophisticated' Independent
'Beautifully observed, with the insight and humour that one has come to expect from the author' Times
'Compelling, compassionate, and aglow with moments of laugh-or-cry humour' Mail on Sunday
'Buchan is a cut above the rest' Sunday Mirror
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The prolific Buchan (Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman) paints an achingly touching portrait of a marriage and family in crisis, hobbled by economic recession and long-buried emotions. For middle-class Londoners Annie and Tom Nicholson she's a hospital administrator, he's a BBC exec the abrupt departure of their eldest daughter, Mia ("I won't be forgiving you and Dad anytime soon," she writes), exposes more than the fissures between parents who've drifted apart. It puts unbearable strain on Mia's twin, Jake, a single parent with a foundering business, and sister Emily, a struggling writer. This good-natured, misguided family stumbles haplessly toward a breaking point when Tom loses his job, and Jake, baby Maisie, and Tom's mum, Hermione, all move in. Suddenly, what had seemed a well-tended life becomes threadbare and crowded with shared disappointment, fear, and need. Here's a textured, layered story of love that builds on trust, founders on lies, and then finally discovers something to believe in. Buchan masterfully captures the Nicholsons' personal story with her richly drawn characters and makes it reflect all of our own frazzled and salvageable lives.
