Jane Bidder Books

A kindly voice from the 'Lost or Stolen' option at the other end of the phone confirmed that no one had taken money from her cards in the short time they'd gone missing. Thank heavens. She decided there was no need to cancel them ... When Georgie Hamilton's car goes missing and then reappears outside her house hours later, her family is convinced she must have left it there - after all, her handbag is still on the back seat. But as her bank accounts start being emptied, and her husband's and clients' funds are raided too, it's clear someone has stolen her identity and is playing fast and loose with it. Her marriage under strain and her business suddenly in tatters, Georgie is forced to confront her past. It's time to face up to what happened to her over twenty years ago ... time to face up to the real Georgie Hamilton.

A week in the lives of seven people - all on the same route to school: Harriet is waiting for her husband to tell her if their marriage is on - or off. Pippa is about to receive some potentially devastating hospital results. Evie has one week to save her career - and find her missing husband. Nick's wife died two years ago, leaving him with a troublesome teenage daughter. Martine, a French au pair, is about to run off with a married man. Kitty, a school teacher, accepts a bet to find a man in a week. And Betty watches by the roadside, looking for the driver who killed her son... Little do any of them know that by the end of the week the school run will have become a collision course, connecting their lives in more ways than one.

Becky heeft de balans tussen het moederschap en haar carrière nog niet echt gevonden. Haar relatie met Steve staat daardoor onder druk. Daar komt nóg een stressfactor bij als haar vader Geoff opnieuw gaat trouwen met een vrouw die hij pas drie maanden kent. Becky vraagt haar vriendin Janie, die net bij een weddingplanner is ontslagen, om de bruiloft te organiseren. Helen, Becky’s moeder, is niet voor niets gescheiden, maar dit nieuws komt toch hard aan. En dan vindt ze zelf opeens een nieuwe liefde. De wat onconventionele dominee Mel die de huwelijksceremonie zal leiden, krijgt een crisissituatie thuis waardoor haar geloof opeens op de proef wordt gesteld. Zo is de aanloop naar het huwelijk van Becky’s vader dus allesbehalve perfect en dat zegt uiteindelijk meer over degenen om hem heen dan over de bruiloft zelf.