An Unlikely Visitor

‘Moving, funny, compassionate and wise. An Unlikely Visitor made me laugh, cry and left me filled with hope’ ELIZABETH DAY 'A perfect book for today’s world’ SARAH WINMAN ‘Heartbreaking, life-affirming and funny all at the same time’ JANE FALLON MARGARET THINKS HER TIME IS UP… BUT MAYBE HER TIME IS NOW? Things have been hard since her husband Derek died, and they never really got over the disappearance of their daughter, Jeanie, all those years ago. Despite everything, they built a lovely life together… it’s just starting to feel impossible for Margaret on her own. Then one day, Margaret returns home to an unlikely visi­tor, and together they set out to discover what really hap­pened to Jeanie. Perhaps if you knock on enough doors, you might find another end to your story… It's not always about the destination… join Joanna Cannon's readers on a profoundly moving emotional journey: 'A book that invites you to slow down… will leave you feeling both tearful and inspired'????? Reader Review 'Wonderfully comforting' ????? Reader Review 'This is a wonderful book, and it will stay with me for a very long time'????? Reader Review 'Tender and poignant'????? Reader Review 'I laughed and cried and could not put the book down'????? Reader Review 'A very special book that will have the reader crying, laughing… and feeling every other possible emotion'????? Reader Review More praise for Joanna Cannon: ‘An Unlikely Visitor feels like a surreal collaboration between Alan Bennett, Alice Sebold, and a Derbyshire Elizabeth Strout’ PATRICK GALE ‘In An Unlikely Visitor Joanna Cannon treats weighty subjects – grief, loss, victimhood – with a light touch and her characteristic compassion and humour’ CLARE CHAMBERS ‘Emotional, sweet, funny, hauntingly sad and poignant’ SARA COX ‘Lovely, lovely, lovely… Sue Townsend meets Kate Atkinson meets Nina Stibbe’ MARIAN KEYES ‘An utter delight’ SARAH WINMAN ‘A joy and a triumph’ RACHEL JOYCE ‘Charming, wise and profoundly human’ ERIN KELLY