When Kendra Tamale returns to England from Australia she rents
a room from Kyle, a divorced father of two, and begins a new job.
She''s looking forward to a fresh start and simple life. Kyle''s
five-year-old twins, Summer and Jaxon, have other ideas and quickly
adopt Kendra as their new mother - mainly because she lets them eat
marshmallows for breakfast. Kendra eventually becomes a part of
their lives, even though she''s hiding a painful secret that makes
her keep everyone - especially children - at arm''s length. Then
Kendra bumps into the man who shares her awful secret, and things
fall apart: she can''t sleep, she can''t eat, she''s suspended from
work, and the kids are taken away by their mother. The only way to
fix things is to confess to the terrible mistake she made all those
years ago. But that''s something she swore never to do ...
關於作者:
After two years living in Sydney, Australia, Dorothy Koomson is
probably now living somewhere in the northern hemisphere but you
just never know with her. Her third novel, My Best Friend''s Girl,
was a Richard Judy Summer Read 2006 and reached no 2 on the
Times Bestseller charts.