Robin Dromgoole, the only son of a widowed mother, learns to cook with Emmeline who lives next door. But Lisa on the other side, whom he minded when she was a baby, is the girl he marries. As usual Anderson's writing is dazzling, she writes from the heart and shoots from the hip.
"Anderson writes an enthralling story. While there is plenty to ponder on, the light touch of a writer working at her assured best means that the reader is treated to a wide range of philosophical and social observations in a constantly entertaining way. The combination of family history and literary whodunit has hardly been better achieved anywhere."
