Something Like Love

After twenty years of marriage, Ben ups and leaves his wife Rose, their children and their family home in Dublin. Just like that: no words of regret, no compromise, no note - only a simple I dont love you anymore. It has taken Rose all this time to get her life together again: shes brought up her three children, Lisa, Brian and Damien single-handedly, and not without difficulty for never again does she want to be completely broke, or to have to revisit that night in hospital with Damien hovering between life and death. To think about it just makes her shudder.

Now Rose is concentrating on her business, the Bonne Bouche bakery, and all the clients shes won, all the friends shes made. Her accounts are in order, the business is blooming. Life really doesnt seem too bad. Until Ben returns, again without warning, and it is soon clear that he expects to infiltrate Roses carefully created world in the most unwelcome of ways.

A stunning sequel to In the Beginning, Catherine Dunnes first novel, Something Like Love is an astonishing portrait of a marriage, and of how the ties that bind are sometimes there forever.