Alice Alone: A brilliant book club read from Amanda Brookfield

'No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield' The Mirror

On the day that her youngest child leaves home, Alice Hatton discovers two disturbing truths in a matter of hours.

The Empty Nest cliche is true.

And she does not love her husband Peter at all.

Now in her fifties, Alice is appalled to realise that she is no longer considered her own person, but is instead defined by her relationships – mother to her adult children, wife to her husband. Horrified b...