I Hope You Dance

About this book

Ruth Henderson has moved back in with her parents - something she swore she would never do especially not at the age of thirty-three. But in the face of the mountain of debt left by her late-partner and the fact that her teenage daughter Maggie is expressing her grief through acts of delinquency there was really only one option. Returning to a house Ruth swore never to set foot in again is bad enough. Add to this an estranged father whirlwind mother and David - the boy next door who broke her heart - and it is little wonder Ruth can barely make it out of bed. But then reunited with her old friend Lois Ruth is persuaded to go along to a monthly girls night. Here she meets a bunch of incredible women and for the first time since leaving home at eighteen Ruth begins to make some genuine friends. She also has her first ever date - with the charming Dr Carl Barker. However after a disastrous dinner and a fraught Maggie still struggling with her fathers death Ruth promises her daughter she wont go out with any other men. A promise she quickly regrets when David the boy next door asks her to dance: