This is Glenn Wilder-Bingham s kingdom. A beautifully displayed, impeccably edited fortress of restraint.

So when Rosie Kitto, an eccentric thirty-eight-year-old primary school teacher from England, bounces into their lives with a secret sorrow and a heart as big as the city, nobody realises that she hasn t read the rule book.

Because after a lifetime of saying no, what happens when everyone decides to start saying . . . yes?

There is lots of fun to be had reading this book. It s impossible not to warm to Rosie. There s something quite joyous about the way she unashamedly romps her way through the novel, changing the lives of those around her for the better Express

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