NEW RELEASE
Little Black Dress - Susan McBride (2011)
Antonia is living her dream - she has a thriving events business and a guy she is ready to settle down with. One night Greg is taking her to dinner and she thinks he's finally ready to propose - instead he's only asking her to move in with him. Upset by this turn of events, she then finds out her mother, Evie, has suffered a stroke and she needs to return to Blue Hills, Missouri, where she hasn't been since her father passed away two years earlier. As she waits to see if her mother will recover, Toni is drawn into her mother's past, including a magical black dress which can tell you the future - both good and bad. Evie was trying on the dress that had changed her life so many years ago when she sees herself dying before she has a chance to tell Toni the truth of the past and about her Aunt Anna whom she never has met. Will time give them the chance to have the mother-daughter relationship they were supposed to have or will all the secrets die with Evie? Alternating between past and present, this is a spellbinding and emotional tale which makes you wonder if you could know the future would you take the chance? Or just wait and see what life has in store for you. (CG)
Susan McBride's latest novel Little Black Dress delves into family secrets. The summary says: "Nothing is as magical as a little black dress. Two sisters whose lives seem forever intertwined are torn apart when a magical little black dress gives each a glimpse of a future from which neither can ever turn back ... Antonia Ashton has worked hard to build a thriving career and committed relationship but, at 46, she realises her life has gone off-track. Forced to return home to Blue Hills when her mother, Evie, suffers a massive stroke, Toni finds the old Victorian where she grew up as crammed full of secrets as it is with clutter. Now she must put her mother's house in order - and uncover long buried truths about Evie and her sister Anna, who vanished 50 years ago on the eve of her wedding. By shedding light on the past, Toni illuminates her own mistakes and learns the most unexpected things about love, magic, and a little black dress with the power to break hearts ... and mend them." Little Black Dress is out in August.