Baby Boomer fiction – No 5 in the Southhill Sagas, set in leafy Surrey, England – each book stands alone

Joy and Michael are initially horrified when their beautiful but irresponsible daughter, Rachael, announces that she is pregnant and refuses to say who the father is. She can barely look after herself; how will she be able to care for a child? Michael is convinced it will all fall on Joy’s shoulders, but Joy hopes that having a baby will make Rachael grow up, fast.

Custody battle

Neither of them actually anticipates that a time might come when they will be consulting a solicitor and battling over custody of little Kelly. Although they love Rachael the welfare of their granddaughter has to be priority number one.

A story of three generations, of love, of joy, of pain, of distress and also of hope