The Path to the Lake

The Path to the Lake

a moving, uplifting and inspiring novel from bestselling author Susan Sallis

Summary

From the pen of multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis comes a heart-warming and emotional novel of secrets, loss and final redemption that will stay with you long after you finish the last page. Readers of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will simply love The Path to the Lake.

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IS SHE RUNNING AWAY FROM THE SECRETS OF HER PAST?

Viv
's marriage to David is not a conventional one, but when he dies - in an accident for which she blames herself - it is as if her whole world had collapses around her. She escapes by running, mainly around the nearby lake, which was once a popular place of recreation but is now desolate and deserted. It becomes both her refuge and her dread.

But through the misery she makes some unexpected friends - a couple in the village whose family need her as much as she needs them.

And gradually, as a new life opens up, she is able confront terrible secrets from her past which have haunted her and which can now be laid to rest...

About the author

Susan Sallis

Susan Sallis was the author of over twenty bestselling novels, many of them set in the West Country. She was born in Gloucestershire and lived in Somerset with her family. She died in 2020.
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