Clear Margins: A South London Second Chance Romance

A second chance romance about rebuilding a life from the ground up - a marriage, a career, and a family, brick by brick. Ana Kowalska is fifty-three when her husband walks out, her job disappears, and a cancer diagnosis takes the rest of the year she thought she had planned. Everyone braces for her to fall apart. She doesn't. She rebuilds instead - one deliberately chosen life at a time. A shop stockroom in Dulwich. A Sunday morning rowing club at Putney. A building company she never expected to co-found with a steady, unshowy man named Robert, who fixes things without being asked twice. Then a phone call changes everything again: a daughter her ex-husband never knew he had, found through a DNA test, twenty-eight years too late and exactly on time. A blended family that keeps, improbably, growing. A mother with strong opinions about all of it. And an ex-husband slowly, painfully learning what it costs to become someone worth forgiving. Set across the real streets of South London - Herne Hill cafés, a Streatham kitchen table, the Thames path at Battersea - before following Ana all the way to a sun-warmed farmhouse in Puglia, Clear Margins is based on true events from the author's own life. Perfect for readers who love: - Second chance romance with an older heroine- Women's fiction about starting over after divorce- Blended family and secret-child storylines- Cancer survivor and redemption fiction- Slow-burn romance set in London and Italy It is never too late to become someone new.