NEW RELEASE
IOU - Helen Warner (2012)
This is a story about widow Jennifer and her two daughters Amy and Kate. Amy has to abandon her extravagant lifestyle after husband Ben's company runs into financial trouble. With Ben suffering a nervous breakdown, Amy has to find a strength and resourcefulness within herself that she never knew she had. Her sister, Kate, a nurse, meets Jack when she has a car accident in a shopping carpark. Drawn to her knight in shining armour, she finds herself dissatisfied with her life and marriage to council worker Miles. And an old flame returns into Jennifer's life in the form of Hugh, the man she turned down to marry Michael all those years ago. But why does she feel like she is betraying her late husband? This is a well-conceived story about instant attraction, temptation and dealing with past debts, and shows that the two generations have more in common than they first thought.
IOU, by Helen Warner, is about three women facing old debts and new temptations. The synopsis says: "Amy has never had to work courtesy of her wealthy husband Ben. Her sister, Kate, however, has always had to struggle by on very little money. Meanwhile Jennifer, their mother, is only beginning to recover from her husband's death. When Jennifer meets Hugh, she unlocks a dangerous Pandora's Box. She wants to find the answer to a question that has tormented her for 36 years: who is Kate's real father? When Ben's business collapses, Amy's charmed life disappears. Can their marriage survive such an upheaval, or is it a case of til debt do us part? Kate's safe world is rocked when she meets Jack. Feeling increasingly estranged from her husband Miles, Kate thinks Jack can offer her a fresh start. But there's something about Jack that Kate doesn't know." IOU is out in March.