As If Love Were Enough

"Forty-one-year-old Clare Layton lives in a world of never-meant-to-be. She never meant to fall in love with a married man. She never meant to be so quick to forgive the sister who abandoned her. And she never meant to revisit the painful years of her childhood, or to embrace the family she never knew she needed." "It was the mid-sixties when Clare Layton's actress mother left her husband and two small daughters to go off with a lover, shattering their picture-perfect Hollywood family. Gone were the star-studded parties, the glamorous outings to Palm Springs and, eventually, Clare's older sister, Louise, who just drifted away. Years later, Clare is a successful magazine writer who has convinced herself she's satisfied with her routine of cooking elaborate meals for one, waiting until dark for her first glass of wine, and dressing for the married man she loves. But her carefully arranged world is blown apart when Louise mysteriously reappears, hoping to enlist Clare in a quest to save her teenage son. With the return of her sister, Clare realizes that she must revisit the past in order to inhabit the present. At last able to confront her childhood, Clare is also able to reevaluate her life, and to receive the gift of love from a sister trying to find her way back."--BOOK JACKET.Fleming, Anne is the author of 'As If Love Were Enough ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781401301057 and ISBN 1401301053.