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Izzy feels blessed to inherit her grandmother’s home. Yet problems entangle her once she is installed in that rural cottage. Her belief she could transfer her enjoyable musician’s lifestyle, playing the piano, performing what she likes playing, for a hotel’s cocktail hour combined with easy teaching arising from her late grandmother’s local friends, has hazards. Responsibilities and troublesome secrets are also left with her grandmother’s possessions.

When her family refuse to become involved, Izzy turns to her grandmother’s former old childhood friends from West Heath School, hoping loyalty engendered by that renowned old place means they will want to help her. Unfortunately that school, now tarnished by its old-fashioned values, means the old girls, though wanting to help, feel compromised, leaving Izzy’s life and family threatened.

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About Lucy Abelson

Born in Norfolk, Lucy Abelson grew up in Kent where her father ran a small tutorial college and her mother practised as a doctor. Since they met playing mixed foursomes on the golf course, the Wildernesse Club played a big part in family life. Lucy spent much of her time off school in the children’s corner of the Sevenoaks bookshop. Although she devoured fiction, she managed to win a general knowledge competition set by the bookshop which led to a prize giving ceremony with Noel Streatfield. On hearing the ten year old wanted to be a “writer like you”; when she grew up, the great author responded to the hoots of laughter from assembled grown-ups, “This little girl wants to steal my job”. Undeterred Lucy started contributing to magazines during her school days at West Heath.

Her first full time job was on Honey magazine. She also wrote for many other magazines before progressing to newspapers. For 17 years she was on the staff of the Sunday Express as a feature writer and a columnist. She is married with three children.