Joy'Did she jump? Did she fall? Will she wake?' On an ordinary Friday afternoon in the office, talented young lawyer Joy Stephens plummets forty feet onto a marble floor. In the shadow of this baffling event, the lives of those closest to her begin to collide and change in unexpected ways. There is Dennis, her disgraced husband, who finds consolation in books; her colleague Peter, whose refuge is a mix of hedonism and hard work; Barbara, Joy's prickly

The dreadful truth must be kept from Napoleon at all costs

and at the close

and even police-officer and criminal becoming equally unclear

and he also explains their appeal to the creative writer

Kate knows how he died and that he's already ill

they assume they'll be dealing with a simple case of theft

his devious new master

These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind' Aung San Suu Kyi

the first time they had been back in their home town for over ten years

the Strawbridges fell in love with a 19th-century fairytale chteau

An old friend in the antiques business has been killed

With characters that capture the voices of gang members