Lovers and Newcomers

Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. Reviving a university dream, she invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and to stave off the prospect of old age. All have their own reasons for accepting.To begin with, the omens are good. They laugh, dance, drink and behave badly, as they cling to the heritage they thought was theirs for ever – power, health, stability. They are the baby boomers, the world is theirs to change. But as old attractions resurface alongside new tensions, they discover that the clock can’t be put back.When building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of a tribal queen, the outside world descends on their idyllic retreat, and the isolation of the group is breached. The past is revealed – and the future that beckons is very different from the one they imagined.

'Thomas is one of the best storytellers around.' -- Daily Express
'A master storyteller.' -- Cosmopolitan
'A lush and sweeping voyage of self-discovery.' -- Eithne Farry

Janey King is a British journalist and romance novelist, writing under the pseudonym of Rosie Thomas. She is the author of 20 novels and ranks among the top 100 authors whose books are borrowed from United Kingdom libraries. Rula Lenska is one of Britain's best loved actresses. Since her breakthrough in Rock Follies in 1976, she has appeared in numerous movies, television programmes and stage productions. She has appeared in Coronation Street, EastEnders, Doctor Who, One Foot in the Grave and Footballers' Wives and over the past 45 years has worked alongside British stage and screen celebrities Joan Collins, Tim Curry, Bob Hoskins, Penelope Keith, Joanna Lumley, Miriam Margolyes to name a few! Rula has also voiced numerous audiobooks and appeared in several episodes of the BBC Radio 4’s The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which first aired in May 2005.

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