The Hub: A Novel

The Gift of Cockleberry Bay (The Cockleberry Bay Series)

It's two days before Christmas and Evie Harris finds herself both manless and jobless. After a chance encounter with handsome Greg (and egged on by her toy-boy-eating friend, Bea) she agrees to work at a homeless shelter on Christmas Day.  Striking up an unlikely friendship with homeless Yves, Evie begins an unwitting journey of spiritual awakening, all set against the sparkling winter backdrop of London.  A New Year's Eve revelation is on its way ... but will it leave Evie with a happy heart, or will she allow the pre-Christmas past to dictate her future?  

Jess is nearly forty when she meets Dan Harris at a party. She is single, sorted, happy – with a great job and a buzzy social and sex life. All of this is threatened when she falls deeply in love with Dan, who is only twenty-three.  Jess, being older, recognises this as the real, precious thing – but in his immaturity, Dan does not. Unable to cope with the stigma of being with an older woman, he eventually leaves her.  Ten years pass...  Jess, who is still gorgeous at fifty, is married now, with a child of her own. They meet again. The years fall away.  This time, Dan understands – but is it too late?