Valerie Sterling is feisty, irreverent and highly successful. The one thorn in her side is her fraught relationship with her father, Jack. As Jack's health declines, will reconciliation be possible? ..".eloquent, witty and moving." Linda Anderson. Head of Creative Writing Lancaster University 2001. "A multi-layered novel of many interwoven threads, it deals with contemporary existential themes without resorting to cheap solutions. The writing is tight, absorbingly detailed, compelling." Andreas Pritzker. Publisher. Munda Verlag 2003. Linda Allin was born in London and educated at the universities of London, Zurich and Lancaster. Since 1975 she has taught English in Switzerland