If Not Now ...

If Not Now ...

by Denyse Devlin (Author)

Synopsis

Just when she has resigned herself to being alone long-term, Marina Ffrench, a widow in her forties, meets a man and falls in love all over again. A mid-life relationship, she thinks, will be straightforward - kids reared, careers established, mortgages almost paid off...However, mid-life passion carries excess baggage. Luke, her man, may have a gorgeous villa on the Italian Lakes, but he also has a pious and eccentric Irish mammy, an Italian ex-lover who is as invasive as dry rot, and a son embroiled in a suspect engagement. And Marina has to admit that her own life is just as complicated - and getting more so by the day, given the number of stray souls and ghosts from the past that are turning up in her Cork home. Gradually, she and Luke come to see that love second time around is hard work. But in their efforts to find a happy ending for everyone, unwittingly they are creating a disaster that may destroy their shared future and the happiness of both families...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 02 Jul 2009

ISBN 10: 1844881318
ISBN 13: 9781844881314

Media Reviews
Devlin's writing is so wonderfully assured, her descriptions so sumptuous, and her characters so true to life, that you are seduced by the romance of it all Irish Examiner Denyse Devlin has done it again with this witty, thought-provoking and gripping tale of love and all its woes ! Pure escapism RTAe Guide It has the feel and entertainment value of chick lit, but Devlin delves deeper ! The clever plot, with a few little twists, keeps you guessing right until the end Irish Independent
Author Bio
Having grown up in a diplomat's family, and later having worked as a translator in the Middle East, Denyse Devlin travelled extensively and had many homes around the world before settling down in Co. Cork in the late 1980s. She lives there with her husband and their two teenage daughters. If Not Now ... is her fifth novel.