Innocence - Hardcover

PRAISE FOR INNOCENCE:

‘This is a coming-of-age novel for women who have wasted their 20s on cheap men and rough wine.’ Guardian

‘A wonderful tale of lust, love, life and redemption.’ Waterstones Books Quarterly

PRAISE FOR KATHLEEN TESSARO:

‘Ultra-smart and classily edgy, this is the glitz novel brought up to date.’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘More heart than you'll ever find on a catwalk...Written with élan and panache.' DAILY MAIL

‘This is a book all women will identify with, and you’ll adore Louise, who’s every bit as charmingly neurotic and nutty as Bridget Jones.’ GLAMOUR

‘A true handbag read, an easy diversion from real life.’ GUARDIAN

The author of the huge debut success ELEGANCE is back with a wonderfully, warm, charming, romantic new novel.

It's 1987 and Evie is leaving home for the first time, headed for London to study acting. Along with her fellow students and roommates, Imogene (a born again Laura Ashley poster child and frustrated virgin) and Robbie (native New Yorker, budding bohemian, and very much not a virgin), Evie's determined to make her mark both on stage and off.

But then life and love, in the shape of struggling rock musician Jake Albery, intervene. And everything changes.

Fourteen years later and Evie's stuck. She's now a single mother teaching drama classes, her dreams long since abandoned. Robbie's dead, killed in car accident and Imo's lost touch.

Then a friendship from the past comes to haunt Evie. Literally. And suddenly everything is about to change again.