Reinventing Emily Brown

When Emily Brown finds herself broke, homeless, and on the brink of divorce she has no choice but to return home to her parents in the sleepy hamlet of Curlew Bay. With her fifteen year old daughter Hayley in tow none too impressed about the move, Emily is forced to face the precipice of forty while contemplating what has become of her once successful life. Never happy without a plan, Emily decides the only thing to do is reinvent herself and focuses on making a new life for her and her Hayley, in the Bay she once called home. However, while Emily is determined on discovering a new path, her family seem intent on interrupting her plans. Hayley insists on making each day more difficult than the last, Emily's mum Mary is acting oddly out of character, and her sister Lucy (dubbed by Emily as 'the golden child') appears to be hiding something. But Emily's biggest challenge is about to catch up with her in the form of her childhood sweetheart, Simon, as a closely guarded secret she kept from him all those years ago threatens to be exposed.Will Emily give up and retreat back to the city to avoid the truth? Or will she realise that reinventing herself means facing the past she once ran from and re-embracing her true self?REINVENTING EMILY BROWN is a feel good mid-life coming of age stories for readers of Beth O'Leary and Mhairi McFarlane.