A Breath of Fresh Air: The heartwarming novel of starting over and finding a new life

'Erica's elegant and perceptive storytelling is always a pleasure. Pure class!' Veronica Henry 'Erica's books are beautifully written, heartwarming, life-affirming and engrossing. A beach holiday is never complete without an Erica James!' Santa MontefioreSpecial edition - with a new introduction from Erica James Charlotte Lawrence, widowed at thirty-four, decides to return to all things pre-Peter, and that means moving back to the Cheshire village of her childhood. It also means exchanging a clinical company flat for the pretty but overgrown garden of Ivy Cottage, and the constant attentions of her interfering sister Hilary. Most of all it means Alex, Ivy Cottage's drop-dead-gorgeous tenant, with whom Hilary is determined Charlotte should find love anew, and whose charming exterior hides his own secret tragedy... 'Erica James' sensitive story of a woman coming to terms with guilt and grief is as sparklingly fresh as dew on the village's surrounding meadows ... thoroughly enjoyable' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Wry humour and romance ... Erica James is a breath of fresh air' DAILY MAIL