Après quinze ans passés à élaborer des stratégies pour des agences de publicité, Alex est retournée à sa passion de toujours pour les livres. Son premier roman est une exploration captivante des relations humaines, abordant des thèmes tels que l'infidélité et l'héritage émotionnel. Elle se concentre sur la profondeur de ses personnages et sur les nuances subtiles de la psyché humaine. Son style d'écriture est captivant, invitant les lecteurs à réfléchir aux complexités des liens et au passé qui façonne le présent.
Nancy Jansen is the beating heart of her family. She is the centre around whom many lives turn. Mother Therapist Daughter Sister Wife But Nancy has a new role: Lover Everybody can be happy, Nancy believes, so long as they can be kept apart. But when these lives start to overlap, collision becomes inevitable, with consequences for all...
In the queue for the toilets at Gatwick, a teenage girl catches 57-year-old Margaret Benson's eye in the mirror and mouths the world help. Margaret's reaction leads to the dramatic rescue of the teenager from her trafficker and Margaret becomes a hero. But when the story gets picked up by the papers, Margaret is panicked by the publicity, as well as the strange phone calls she begins to receive. Meanwhile Anja makes contact. She wants to thank her rescuer, but she also quickly inserts herself into Margaret's lonely life. As their friendship develops, so do questions: who is Margaret hiding from, and what are Anja's true motives? And what is the cost of living a lie?