Harriet Evans

"When Martha, a wife and mother of three, sits down one late summer's morning to write out the invitations to her eightieth birthday celebration, she knows that what she is planning to reveal at the party could ruin the idyllic life she and her husband David have spent over fifty years building. But she has to let her family know what she and David have sacrificed. She can't live a lie any more"--Amazon.com.

"Families are different, with brothers big and small, stepbrothers or half-brothers, we love them, one and all. Celebrate your nearest and dearest with this ode to family, full of heartwarming illustrations and written in gentle rhyming text"--Page [4] of cover.

"Pursuing a writing career in London, Eleanor Bee takes a publishing job, frequents pubs, and avoids relationships before falling in love, a situation on which she reflects a decade later when she becomes a successful New York editor.