When I choose a book I always read the blurb on the back to see if it's likely to appeal to me. Just occasionally I read the book and wonder if I'm reading the same one as the writer of the blurb. This was one of those occasions and in this case the book was better than the blurb had led me to suspect. I was promised a story of Cora's mother muscling in on the new baby, complete with a string of cinema first-night fantasies.