I read The Missing Letters of Mrs Bright by Beth Miller in April, and really enjoyed it. It tells the story of 51-year-old Kay Bright, who has had enough of her marriage of three decades to workaholic Richard, who runs a small chain of independent stationery shops, and who decides to walk out and into the unknown. Nothing spectacular has gone wrong, as she tries to explain to her children Stella and Edward, but it’s now or never if she is going to have a chance of a new beginning, and besides, she needs to travel to Australia to find out what has happened to her friend Ursula, who has suddenly stopped writing.

As Kay holes up initially in a cottage in Wales to get over the initial shock, with help from her friend Rose, Stella picks up the pieces whilst trying to deal with her own tricky relationship, and Edward seems to have gone awol for no obvious reason. Richard falls apart, his mother swooping in, and then quickly bounces back, as Kay sets off for Australia to find Ursula. Ursula is being evasive but does agree to a madcap trip to Venice and there Kay gets to the bottom of what’s going on, pushing herself to deal with her own past, lost loves and family secrets.

This was a delicious read and I particularly loved the hilarious support group for adult children of divorce that Stella attends and was glad when she found peace with her parents situation’ and her own.