Give a Little Love: This summer's feel good novel as featured on Graham Norton's Virgin Show

Angela is reeling from the death of her husband Robert, but she has a gnawing sensation that he could be harsh, critical, and often belittling in front of others. As lockdown drags on, Angela makes a disturbing discovery on Robert's old phone: messages from a woman who had a close relationship with her late husband. Enraged but liberated by the betrayal, Angela starts to reclaim her life until she runs into Zana. Zana is watching Angela's house with her small child in tow. Angela is forced to reframe her outlook, check her privilege, and confront how she plans to live the rest of her life. Slowly, they build a relationship based on mutual recognition, and when Zana introduces Angela to her friends at the local homeless mother and child hostel, she discovers a different, more hopeful, kind of family bubble.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 288 pages
\n Publication date: 08 July 2021
\n Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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From one of the stars of BBC's hit series Motherland, Jackie Clune's writing always makes me roar with laughter. Nigella Lawson describes it as a proper twisty-turny plot, Graham Norton praises it for its joyful and hopeful nature, Loose Ends calls it humorous and hopeful, and Woman's Weekly hails it as a humorous and hopeful portrayal of lockdown in London in March 2020.

Angela is reeling from the sudden death of her husband, Robert. As the world hunkers down against the pandemic, she and her two children, home from university, lock down in their grief and remembrance. However, Angela has this gnawing sensation, a tightness in her chest every time she thinks of Robert. He could be harsh, critical, often belittling in front of others. But he did his best, didn't he? He looked after them, even if he did make the decisions and laugh at her small ambitions. Even if he controlled most things in Angela's so-called life.

As lockdown drags on with its do-gooder neighbors and their cake-baking and competitive Clapping for Carers, Angela makes a disturbing discovery on Robert's old phone: messages from a woman who clearly had a close relationship with her late husband. Enraged but liberated by the betrayal, Angela starts to reclaim her life.

Until she runs into Zana. Zana, who appears to be watching her house. Zana, with her small child in tow. Zana, and her inexplicable connection to Robert...

When Angela decides to help Zana, she is forced to reframe her outlook, check her privilege, and confront how exactly she plans to live the rest of her life. Slowly, they build a relationship based on their mutual recognition, and when Zana introduces Angela to her friends at the local homeless mother and child hostel, she discovers a different, more hopeful, kind of family bubble.

Wickedly dark but full of heart, this is a story of pulling together and finding hope in the face of adversity. It is a testament to the power of human connection and the resilience of the human spirit.

\n Weight: 386g\n
Dimension: 142 x 224 x 26 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781529353853\n \n