First Published: 2019
The novel starts with a very strong image.
The day after her father's funeral Roxy finds her husband, Dave, in bed with their next-door neighbour, Julie. Roxy was supposed to spend a few days with her mum, but decided to return home.
Caught in the act, Dave stammers that she was supposed to be at her mum's. Then he says that Julie came to offer him some tea, and as Roxy had been away so often with her dad's illness, he felt alone, but this is something that was meaningless for him. Roxy can't stand him and goes to her mum's where her children already are.
Now Roxy needs to think what she wants to do. Dave is apologetic and sorry about her behaviour, but Rosy can't return to her house where she found him with the neighbour. So the key question is whether she can forgive him.
Roxy has taken over her dad's job since he got sick. Christy was a taxi driver but then he decided to get into the business of executive transport. So he bought a Mercedes and through his contacts he drove high-powered businesspeople or those in the show business where they told him, and that is what Roxy does now.
There is something that Roxy learns from her mum when they are looking through some photographs. In one there is her dad in hippie attire with a very pretty girl. Her mother tells her that this is his first girlfriend, Estelle. They met at a camp, and when her father found them together, he beat up Christie, and that was the end of their relationship. I don't know but I think that this old story of Roxy's father is not as simple as her mum tells her.
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