The Beacon — Susan Barrett

(extracts from the jacket of the Hamish Hamilton edition)
Katherine Mullen faces a commonplace tragedy.  After twenty years of marriage her husband leaves her for a younger woman and she must try to construct a new life for herself and her two teenage children.
...In Kate Mullen, Susan Barrett has created a woman of our times - someone honest and self-critical, open to experience, but loyal to her own sense of morality.