A Crack In The Family Line

About the Book

This family story begins in the devastating wake of twenty-three year old Sam's suicide for unknown reasons. The consequences of this within the family unravel in different ways and we are taken along several intertwined paths as the story continues.

Merle's grief for her son results in a depression which drives a wedge between herself and her husband David. He seeks comfort and understanding with his secretary, which leads to an affair. However, he is overcome with guilt and ends the liaison, unaware of the vengeful plot planned by his mistress as he tries to repair his marriage.

Hell, indeed, hath no fury like a secretary scorned…

About the Author

Christine Follett was born in London in 1947 and qualified as a nurse at St George's Hospital in 1968. She subsequently married and had three children and then worked for seven years with deprived young people, and then for a further seven years as a counsellor in a girls' school in Surrey.

She now has three delightful granddaughters and lives with her husband and two dogs in Ruislip.

A Crack in the Family Line is her second published book; her first, Letters in the Loft was published in 2005.