Isla Dewar - Getting Out of the House

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Nora was devastated when her mother, Maisie, told her she preferred her older daughter, Cathryn. Heartbroken, but not altogether surprised. After all, Cathryn was clever, good-looking, just about perfect, really. Nora was awkward, and prone to daydreaming and telling fibs. Who wouldn’t prefer Cathryn, Nora thought?

But now, living in Edinburgh, removed from her childhood home and her volatile mother, Nora is happy. She has a lover she adores, a close circle of friends with whom she can banter and joke, and a job that befits a dreamer and fibber. Life is beautiful. But when Maisie’s world unexpectedly falls apart, she and Cathryn think it obvious Nora be the one to pick up the pieces. Nora doesn’t think it obvious at all.

Escaping her family was Nora’s first step to self-fulfilment. But when she has to deal with betrayal and the surprising consequences of a love affair, she finds, at last, a way to forgive and even learn to love the people she left behind.