Before We Say Goodbye

By by Louise Candlish (£6.99, Sphere)  on Wednesday 29 July 2009

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An emotional page-turner about rediscovering your first love while happily hitched to someone else

Olivia has a happy marriage, two bright children and a husband she loves, but nestling in her heart is the memory of a teenage romance — in the shape of slacker surfer Richie Briscoe. When -Olivia's melodramatic mother, Maggie, dies, old memories are revived – including Olivia's recollection of her mother's -frequent disappearing acts and her -unwarranted interference in her daughter's love life. Maggie continues to mix things up, even after her death, when an envelope arrives with Richie's seaside -address scrawled on it in her handwriting. Abandoning her family, Olivia escapes to Weymouth and the tantalising prospect of having the life she always believed she should have had. Sensitively handled and with a lead character that you can really feel for, Candlish's story deftly explores Olivia's passionate quandaries. A heartfelt study that heads into the emotionally fraught territory of 'what if'.

Review by by Louise Candlish (£6.99, Sphere)

Release date: Wednesday 29 July 2009

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