<p>A story of friendship and loneliness, of losing and searching and occasional joy.</p><p>Everyone in this novel would like to go back in one way or another &ndash; back home, back to the past, back to being friends, even back to being lovers.</p><p>There&rsquo;s Bill who has recently been widowed and is feeling restless as well as bereft &ndash; he&rsquo;d like to go back to his lost love from his student days. She&rsquo;s Joan, also on her own and intrigued by the prospect of seeing him again. And there&rsquo;s Viv, Joan&rsquo;s friend, who becomes entangled in Bill&rsquo;s search.</p><p>Meanwhile, Joan is having her own misfortunes at the other end of the country, and when she returns home she seems to have changed and to be unresponsive to Viv&rsquo;s friendship.</p><p>The adventures of all three are woven into a comedy of errors in this gently under-stated story from the author of &lsquo;Who Your Friends Are&rsquo;, &lsquo;The Roads They Travelled&rsquo;, and &lsquo;Hollin Clough&rsquo;.</p><p>As usual, her sharp eye for detail brings to life her quietly woven characters, who find their way to a finale which holds possibilities and risks for each of them.</p>