Claire Newbold is not your typical heroine. Smart and sexy, yes, but she's also been known to sneak into a hotel room or two without paying, seduce a teenager in wet bathing trunks, and just check out of things altogether - like her job. And her marriage. No wonder, though. Claire's been careening off heartbreak. Her only child has died.
On the discovery her husband has had an affair, she takes leave of absence from her everyday life, and her behaviour drifts from illicit to erratic.
No longer a mother, not sure she wants to be a wife, Claire moves from hotel to hotel, basking in the anonymity of travel and forbidden sex. As she struggles to understand her marriage and her life, she surprises herself - and us - by emerging with a new sense of redemption.
- ISBN10 1911590014
- ISBN13 9781911590019
- Publish Date 26 July 2018 (first published 1 June 1999)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 December 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pushkin Press
- Imprint ONE
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English