Monica Mclnerney grew up in a family of seven children in the Clare Valley of South Australia, where her father was a railway stationmaster. She is the author of four bestselling novels, The Alphabet Sisters, Spin the Bottle,Upside Down Inside Out and A Taste for It. She now lives in Dublin with her husband.

If you love Maeve Binchy this book will most certainly appeal to you. This story has everything,romance, humour, travel and adventure, making it the perfect ~hoice for holiday reading.

A funny, warm and searching story of family secrets and dilemmas from the bestselling author of The Alphabet Sisters.

Harriet Turner knows all about journeys. After all, she's arranged hundreds of them for the travel agency her family runs in the Australian coastal town of Merryn Bay. But when her work colleague and foster sister, tara, disappears on the eve of a big overseas trip,Harriet finds herself in uncharted territory.

Left alone in England with a coachload of eccentric tourists on a themed tour of locations from the Willoughby TV detective series, Harriet has her hands full. But as the bus trundles through the picturesque Cornishcountryside, the tour becomes another kind of journey for her. She finds herself facing big questions about her family and her childhood, about her feelings for the guest of honour on the tour, star of Willoughby,Patrick Shawcross and the biggest puzzle of all: what has happened to tara?