Alexander and Maria: a story about overcoming adversity in all its forms, it will have you rooting for & Maria as they fight real love. ... written beautiful sensitive prose.

Judith, after a long career as an art teacher, moves back int her childhood home in the Cotswolds.Out of the blue, hand-painted postcards land on her doormat, each one portraying a line from the well-remembered magpie nursery rhyme. Nudged by their arrival Judith interprets them as a sign to seek out those in the village who most need her help and to face her past. Enticed out of the doldrums of retirement, her compassion is ignited, and she discovers passion and purpose in her role as an unlikely confidant to many. With her closest friend, Louise, encouraging her to pick up her art, and her life, again, Judith embarks on her journey of rediscovery, unlikely connections and renewed hope. And, with a bubbling excitement, she realises this is the start of something new. But who is sending the cards and when will they reveal themselves, if at all, and, when romance is rekindled with a long-forgotten school friend, will Judith too, at last, find happiness. After all, that's what we all want in life, isn't it?