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Decisions in love are made more hastily in Caroline Grace-Cassidy's latest novel, The Other Side of Wonderful. The summary says: "Cara Byrne has moved on. She's not hiding her deep dark past - it's just that no one has asked. Yet. When she retreats to her new job in the quaint village of Knocknoly she wants to put it all behind her. Cara's dreams have simplified beyond recognition. All she wants now is to live a quiet, single life, but won't rest until she persuades her eclair-sucking mother Esther to leave Dublin and join her. Cara can't bear what she has put the older woman through but she is determined to make it up to her and banish their nightmares forever. Sandra Darragh travelled the world as an air hostess but she couldn't do that forever now, could she? She had to plan her normal life. The ticking biological time bomb time was not on her side. She wanted to fit in, marriage and babies. As her short marriage to Neil crumbles before her eyes and her second round of IVF fails she realises she has been throwing herself into something just because that was what society expected her to do. She has been living a lie." The Other Side of Wonderful is out in June.