People we love

For readers of Jojo Moyes, Jodi Picoult, David NichollsHer life is on hold – until an unlikely visitor climbs in through the kitchen windowA year after her brother’s fatal accident, Lexie’s life seems to have reached a dead end.

She is back home in small-town Hailesbank with her shell-shocked parents, treading softly around their fragile emotions. As the family business drifts into decline, Lexie’s passion for painting and for her one-time mentor Patrick have been buried as deep as her unexpressed grief, until the day her lunch is interrupted by a strange visitor in a bobble hat, dressing gown and bedroom slippers, who climbs through the window. Elderly Edith’s batty appearance conceals a secret and starts Lexie on a journey that gives her an inspirational artistic idea and rekindles her appetite for life.

With friends in support and ex-lover Cameron seemingly ready to settle down, do love and laughter beckon after all?