Tessa Barrie

The remote village of Didsbrook is thrown into turmoil after its best-known resident, the former actress turned best-selling novelist Jocelyn Robertshaw, is found dead under mysterious circumstances.Villagers are appalled to learn that the charismatic Jocelyn died from Hemlock poisoning. Police claim she shot and ate a quail that had ingested hemlock. A theory disputed by all who knew her well. The animal-loving Jocelyn would never kill anything, but due to the lack of forensic evidence, police rule death by misadventure.Jocelyn’s young protégée, Lucy Fothergill, determined to discover the truth about what happened to her mentor, discovers a hidden stash of Jocelyn’s notebooks, reveali...

The humour shines through in this bittersweet family drama! 

When Lisa Grant turns forty, she attempts to avoid an inevitable midlife crisis by addressing the problem she has carried with her for forty years - her narcissistic mother, Elizabeth.

Lisa blames her mother for her emotional impotence, and, for her sanity, she needs to address the situation with Elizabeth. Believing a childhood trauma may be responsible for her mother's total lack of empathy, she harnesses her journalistic skills to investigate her mother's past and is shocked by what she finds.