A Borrowed Path

Home is where the heartache is.

Eve has always had a tricky relationship with her mother, Agatha, and returning to Fox House, the family home, hasn’t made it any easier. When Eve’s daughter, Lyra, and granddaughter, Skye, unexpectedly turn up, it becomes clear that four generations of women under one roof is a recipe for trouble. Not least because Lyra clearly needs help but refuses to say why.

Lyra decides she wants to live in the ramshackle cottage in the grounds, but when Agatha announces she’s promised it to a man called Dylan, Eve and Lyra are mystified. Who is he, and what reason could Agatha possibly have for giving him the cottage?

Because it seems that it’s not only Lyra hiding things. Agatha has secrets she has never had the courage to tell Eve. Is now the right time to finally reveal the truth? And if she does, will it give them the relationships they’ve all longed for—or will it drive them further apart?

When Pip and Evelyn’s paths cross in real life they slowly begin to reveal the hidden stories that are holding them back. Can they help each other forgive what happened in the past and, perhaps, find happiness in the future?


A Borrowed Path by Imogen Clark | a captivating contemporary family saga that explores the lives of four generations of women bound by complex relationships and hidden secrets.

A Borrowed Path

Publication date – 24th September 2024

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing

Available in: Paperback, ebook, audiobook

ISBN: TBC

“Connected by loss, a friendship blooms across the generations in this compassionate and nuanced story of endings and new.”   Fiona Valpy, bestselling author of The Skylark’s Secret