It’s often said that wisdom comes with age, but, if that is true, who would ever dare risk falling in love after the age of 16? A disastrous marriage followed by 15 years as a live-in carer for her ailing, but cantankerous father, have already left Maggie Stern feeling that her life is over, then her father’s death renders her not only jobless, but homeless too. Her attempts to rebuild her life in middle age are haunted by newspaper revelations about her father’s wartime past as well as by her own sense of failure. Can she find the courage to grab a second chance at life? A book about why being sensible isn’t always sensible.