GHOSTS (PB)

When Nina Dean, a 30-something successful food writer, meets Max - a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that he's going to marry her - it feels like all is going to plan. A new relationship couldn't have come at a better time - her thirties have not been the liberating, uncomplicated experience she was sold. Friendships are fading, her mum is caught in a baffling mid-life makeover, and her beloved dad is vanishing in slow-motion into dementia.