Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 16 June 2011.
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 30 July 2008.
Wise, inspiring and brilliantly compelling, this is an unforgettable debut novel that will pull on the heart strings. There’s a real quality about the writing, which is spare with not a word out of place and coupled with a quirky but excellent plot, stylish wit and plenty of emotional ups and downs it’s a book to savour. Pippa is an unforgettable heroine and the flashbacks to her less than ordinary childhood are cleverly intertwined with her life now with an elderly husband, 30 years her senior, who she is utterly devoted to.
'A luminous writer' Olivia Laing 'Compelling' The Times 'Beautifully nuanced' Daily Mail Pippa seems to have everything in life. But suddenly she finds her world beginning to unravel. Amid the buzzing lawnmowers and suburban coffee mornings, she starts to wonder how she came to be in this place. The answer is a story of wild youth, unexpected encounters, affairs and betrayals, and the dangerous security of marriage. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee brilliantly reveals the challenges of modern life - and all the possibilities that it holds.
