Chrissie believed that Richie had loved her for all the 23 years they’d been together, loved their daughters and their happy, chaotic existence. Richie gave her everything, except the security of marriage. That belonged to Margaret, back in Newcastle where Richie had started off as a musician, before he became famous. Margaret and her son Scott never saw Richie, and had never met his daughters. They were his other family, not mentioned but always there in Chrissie’s mind. And then, suddenly and shockingly, Richie is no longer there, and Chrissie and the girls have to learn to manage without him. The presence of the other family becomes, all at once, impossible to ignore... --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
