CLOSE RELATIONS is one of the funniest and truest novels about modern family life you'll ever read. Gordon Hammond, sixty-five, a builder who has built up his own, modestly successful business, has a heart attack. Whilst recovering in hospital he falls in love with April, a young black nurse, and leaves Dorothy, his wife of 45 years to set up home with her. Dorothy is released like a loose cannon into the lives of her three daughters and chaos ensues. More relationships break up, passions run high and dramatic developments ensue that will change the Hammond family forever.
Louise, Prudence and Maddy are three grown-up sisters happy to lead very different lives. But when their father leaves their mother, his wife of forty years, they find their own lives are plunged into chaos. Passions run high as the different generations bicker, fall out, test their emotions and pick up the pieces in this rich and profound novel of generations and family.
