Starting Over (by Robin Pilcher)

I had almost forgotten how much I like Robin Pilcher’s novels, so am very glad I decided to re-read them. I’ve just finished his second novel, ‘Starting Over’. Apparently I re-read it last in 2017 but I had entirely forgotten the story. It’s character-based - like his better-known late mother, the author has a tremendous gift for creating three-dimensional, sympathetic and entirely believable people.

Liz is one of the first people we meet. She’s around forty, the mother of 19-year-old Alex, and ...