From Booklist
Beth Holyoake, the headmistress at a Devon school, is manipulated into taking in her 18-year-old niece while her brother and sister-in-law take off on an Italian vacation. Egocentric Emma, so awful she makes most teenagers look like angels, absconds with Beth's MG and promptly crashes it into a Range Rover belonging to Conrad, an aging pop star. As Emma and Conrad embark on a romance, Beth starts dating the head of the school's board of governors, but when he asks her for profit-making information after an arsonist attack on the school, she begins to feel uneasy. Conrad finds Emma's irresponsibility irritating, and when a waiter commiserates with him over the behavior of teenage daughters, he realizes that he is indeed old enough to be her father. Almost against their will, Conrad, whose closest confidant is a boar named Falstaff, and Beth, a workaholic, find themselves falling in love. Cutler's contemporary British romance featuring a middle-aged couple is a refreshing diversion. Diana Tixier Herald
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About the Author
Prize-winning short-story writer JUDITH CUTLER is the author of two acclaimed series of crime novels set in Birmingham. The Dying series features amateur sleuth Sophie Rivers, while in her police procedural series Inspector Kate Power lives up to her name. One-time Secretary of the Crime Writers' Association, Judith has taught Creative Writing at Birmingham University, and has run occasional writing courses elsewhere. Now a full-time writer, she lives near Canterbury with husband and crime-writer Edward Marston.
