A Risk Worth Taking (by Robin Pilcher)

I’m glad I decided to re-read my books by Robin Pilcher; I recalled that he wrote slightly harder-hitting novels than his late mother, but that he shared her gift for characterisation, creating three-dimensional, sympathetic people. I’ve just finished ‘A Risk Worth Taking’, which I last read in 2005; it was the Robin Pilcher’s third published novel. 

The book is primarily about a man called Dan Porter, and we meet him struggling to wake up after throwing his alarm clock on the floor. It’s a good...