Author(s): Madeleine St.John

Fiction

Nicola should never have stepped out to buy that pack of cigarettes because the man she discovers in her living room when she returns is not the adorable, straightforward, devoted Jonathan with whom she has been sharing her life and flat for the past six years. That Jonathan would never have simply, unilaterally, decided that she should, as he abruptly put it, 'move out.' So a shocked, grief-stricken Nicola packs her bags and sets out bravely on the bumpy course that will take her from the hellish end of an affair to the essence of the thing. With her comic timing and tender vision Madeleine St John takes us into the changing nature of the human heart.