"The Stepmothers' Support Group" is an emotional tale of the complexities that come with creating and being part of blended families. It's a great book for readers who enjoy relatable characters and realistic family dynamics. The unique feature of this book is that it explores the often neglected relationships between stepmothers and their support system. The author offers a touching and honest story that will leave readers feeling hopeful and optimistic about their own blended families.

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You can't choose your family - but you can choose your friends... A heartfelt, warm and truthful novel about female friendship.


Eve has never imagined herself as a stepmother. But when she falls in love with Ian, he comes with a ready-made family of three children. And, to make matters worse, he's a widower. The ghost of his glamorous and well known wife haunts them.


Clare, a teacher and single mother, is Eve's best friend. She is the only person Eve can talk to about how on earth a journalist in her thirties can win round three wary children. But despite Clare's years of practice with her own teenage daughter, it's Lily, her younger sister, who provides the truly sympathetic ear.


Mel is sent along to Eve's so-called 'support group' by a colleague. With a fledgling relationship and a new business to get off the ground, she has a very different set of pressures to the other women.


And Mandy is the stay-at-home mum, whose relationship comes with stepchildren, and who wants more than anything to stitch together a happy family life for herself, her kids and her new step-kids.


As a cup of coffee turns to a bottle of wine and the get-togethers become a regular fixture, conversations about new families evolve into ones about relationships, life and each woman's deepest hopes and dreams. But the friendship is tested and feelings about lovers, husbands and step-children challenged when the five women are forced to confront new futures as well as unwelcome figures from the past...

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