I love Susie Steiner’s 'Manon' book, of which I think this is the 2nd (maybe 3rd) and it is shocking and horrible to hear that she now has cancer. She had already lost her eyesight and this seems really tough. I really hope you recover Susie.
This is a brilliant if oddly shaped, book: Manon, the heroine, has adopted a young black child, (see 'Missing Presumed'), moved him to Huntingdon where she lives and decided, at the age of 42, to have AI to produce a child of her own. She works part time for the police in view of her pregnancy.
A man is murdered in the town and her son is accused, out of a crude mixture of racism, connivance (her sister was the victims’ lover and now involved with a senior policeman) and apparent evidence against him. Manon will not stand for this, and eventually the very complex plot involving City bankers, teenage prostitution and both Huntingdon and sleazy bits of London unravels to a satisfactory (-ish) conclusion.
These are such good books and I just hope she survives and can write some more.
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