'Utterly addictive' GLAMOUR

How do you face the future when the past won’t let you go?

Big Stone Gap is a sleepy village where kids get married and start families at eighteen, and stay for ever. So thirty-five-year old Ave Maria Mulligan is something of an oddity. A self-proclaimed spinster, as the local pharmacist she's been keeping the townsfolk's secrets for years.

Now Ave Maria is about to discover a scandal in her own family's past that will blow the lid right off her quiet, uneventful life.

Soon she's juggling two unexpected marriage proposals and conducting a no-holds-barred family feud. The thought of spending the rest of her life in Big Stone Gap is suddenly overwhelming …

The ultimate Small Town American novel from the bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick.

Praise for the BIG STONE GAP series:

'Hilarious and romantic. I couldn’t put it down’ SARAH JESSICA PARKER

'One of my all-time favourite novels' WHOOPI GOLDBERG

‘If you love curling up with charming tales of small towns and quirky characters, switch off with this’ COSMOPOLITAN