The Golden Rule

A Times, Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Mail and Financial Times Best Book of 2020 Pick

''A highly enjoyable story about female resilience and finding fulfilment on your own terms'' Sunday Times

''An irresistible summer read'' Guardian Book of the Day

''A typically sharp and hugely satisfying page-turner'' Daily Mail

She''s such a skilful storyteller'' Bernardine Evaristo

When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider''s web. Now a poor young single mother, Hannah once escaped Cornwall to go to university. But once she married Jake and had his child, her dreams were crushed into bitter disillusion. Her husband has left her for Eve, rich and childless, and Hannah has been surviving by becoming a cleaner in London. Jinni is equally angry and b