The Aftermath

Helen has spent twenty-six years since the accident moving through her days on autopilot, doing her job and raising her daughter without really being present for either. She has one wish left: to see Julia settled with a family of her own, so that she can finally let go.

Julia has coped with her mother's emotional distance by seeking love in the wrong places. Her latest choice costs her the friendship of Claire, and for the first time Julia has no one to lean on.

Claire seems impossibly perfect. She looks after everyone around her, her cheating ex-husband included, and has forgotten to look after herself. Hurt by Julia's betrayal, she no longer knows whom to trust.

This is women's fiction built around three characters: a mother, a daughter and a friend. As their lives come apart, the three find their way back to one another in ways none of them expect.

A devastating secret still hangs over them, and the question is whether they can put the past behind them. This revised edition was first published in South Africa under the title The Accident and includes editorial revisions.