ABOUT
THE BOOK

Candida Wilton arrives in London, alone, divorced and without much money. Yet she is strangely excited: what might happen to her now in her final years? Prepared to fill her empty life with little events and pleasures – trips to the gym, visits to her reading group – she finds her horizons broadened by an unexpected windfall.
Gathering together six travelling companions – women friends from childhood, from married life and after – Candida maps out the journey she has long dreamed of: to Tunis, Naples and Pompeii. Perhaps, she wonders, we can make anything happen if only we have the nerve…