Description:
When sound designer Su, a divorced mother of one daughter, falls in love with Jeremy, a widowed father of two sons, they want to build a new life together. As neither of their houses in Worcester is big enough for a family of five, they decide to build a dream home in farmland outside the city.
For Su, it's an opportunity to heal the past wounds of betrayal and loss, while failed entrepreneur Jeremy sees a chance to finally impress his overbearing father. But with financial misjudgements, secret transgressions and lies creating cracks where this new family attempt to blend into one, will they ever be able to cement their 'happily ever after'?
A sharp, addictive psychological drama, The Sound of It explores the complexities of parenting in a blended family - especially when expectations are high, dreams are big, and the Internet is a very dangerous place indeed.
Brief description: Daughter of a mother from the Wirral Peninsula and a father from Missouri, Alison Jean Lester spent her formative years in the US and the UK. Her studies took her to China, Taiwan and Italy. She then worked and raised her children in Japan and Singapore. She is the author of the novels Lillian on Life, Yuki Means Happiness and Glide, the collections Locked Out: Stories Far from Home and Restroom Reflections: How Communication Changes Everything, and the memoir Absolutely Delicious: A Chronicle of Extraordinary Dying, a finalist in the Indie Excellence Books Awards. She now lives with her photographer husband in Worcestershire, England.
Review Quotes:
"An honest and gripping look at parenting, step-parenting and later-in-life love." - #1 bestselling author Adele Parks
"An absorbing and powerful novel about blended families, love and betrayal." - Louisa Treger, author of Madwoman
"Hilarious, desperately sad, and utterly compelling. An extraordinary and extremely readable novel. I've never read anything quite like it." - Fiona Mitchell, author of The Swap
"Lester paints a fascinating picture of the trajectory of a modern relationship in this mesmerising novel. This sensitive, clever and, above all, believable portrayal will have you gripped from start to finish. Highly recommended." - Kerry Hadley-Pryce, author of The Black Country