Lois Hunter is well off and happily married, with a house in the country, two well-adjusted children, and a banker husband who commutes to London. Both are pillars of the community and lead richly rewarding lives. Why, then does Lois develop an attachment to a beggar she sees outside a supermarket? There is nothing sexual in it, she insists, but the sight of Oliver and his two puppies sitting on the cold pavement touches her heart. She resolves to help him, and her philanthropy produces some strain in her marriage. Her sister, too, is critical -- until she meets Oliver, and, in turn, becomes as obsessed as Lois...
- ISBN10 0754022587
- ISBN13 9780754022589
- Publish Date 1 November 2000 (first published 7 September 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 November 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher AudioGO Limited
- Imprint Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 360
- Language English