Overview

Fast approaching forty, for the last fifteen years Alex had focused all her attention on her career, steadily climbing the ladder until finally she achieved the top rung and her life's ambition . . . becoming a Comprehensive Head Teacher.

Five years years on her life is settled and organised, maybe a little predictable. but she's content . . . and then one day a young woman bursts into the sauna she's sharing, and from that moment her previously well ordered life is turned upside down.

Captivated by the stranger, Alex knows there are conventions, other's expectations, and codes of practice that must be observed . . . but can she

Chloe is fifteen years younger, and this term will be her first as a newly qualified teacher. She's also Clare's daughter, another Head Teacher and Alex's best friend