Unexpected lessons in love - Bernardine Bishop
Unexpected lessons in love - Bernardine Bishop Cecilia Banks has a great deal on her plate. Cephas's arrival is the latest of many challenges Cecilia has to face. But when her son Ian turns up on her…
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Unexpected lessons in love - Bernardine Bishop
Cecilia Banks has a great deal on her plate. Cephas's arrival is the latest of many challenges Cecilia has to face. But when her son Ian turns up on her doostep with the unexpected consequence of a brief fling, she feels she has no choice but to take the baby into her life.
Then there is Helen herself, whose observations of Cecilia's family life reveal a somewhat ambivalent attitude to motherhood. There is the matter of her cancer, for a start, an illness shared with her novelist friend Helen. Meanwhile Tim, Cecilia's husband, is taking self-effacement to extremes, and Ian, unless he gets on with it, will throw away his best chance at happiness.
Cecilia, however, does not have to manage alone. In a convent in Hastings sits Sister Diana Clegg who holds the ties that bind everyone not only to each other, but to strangers as yet unmet. As events unfold and as the truth about Cephas is revealed, we are invited to look closely at madness, guilt, mortal dread and the gift of resilience.
No one will remain unchanged. 'Frank, courageous and entertaining. I felt better for reading it' Margaret Drabble.