On Top of Everything

Rotten things happen in threes in Florence's family, so when she's fired by her best friend and left by her husband in the space of a single afternoon, she knows there is yet more trouble brewing. And when her son Monty returns from his gap year Down Under it's only too clear what, or who, that trouble is.

Then the plan to turn her crumbling home into a tea room hits a snag, the macrame at her sister's house starts to seriously unravel, and why is her doctor leaving so many messages?

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Enter Will, a mysterious handyman with a secret stash of chocolate truffles, and soon life - with all its hiccups - is just her cup of tea.

A bittersweet story about life, living and the importance of afternoon tea.

Genre
women’s fiction
Setting
2000s
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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