If Not Now...

Just when she has resigned herself to being alone, Marina Ffrench, a widow in her forties, meets a man and falls in love all over again. A midlife relationship, she thinks, will be easy - kids reared, careers established, mortgages almost paid off...

However, midlife passion carries excess baggage. Luke, her man, may have a gorgeous villa on the Italian lakes, but he also has an eccentric Irish mammy, a glamorous ex-lover living next door, and a son embroiled in an iffy engagement. And Marina has to admit that her own life is just as complicated - and getting more so by the day, given the number of stray souls and ghosts from the past turning up on her doorstop.

Gradually, she and Luke come to see that love second time around is hard work. But in their efforts to find a happy ending for everyone, unwittingly they are creating a disaster that may destroy their shared future and the happiness of both families...