<B>The brilliant and incisive new novel from the author of <I>Lives Like Mine</I>...</B><BR/><BR/><B>A deeply affecting novel, <I>In Blooms</I> tells of strength, survival, forgiveness, resilience and determination, and the fierce love and unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.</B><BR/><BR/> Ever since Sol’s untimely death left her pregnant and alone at twenty-four, Delph’s kept herself small as a form of self-protection. Now, over a decade later, she lives with their daughter Roche and her new partner Itsy, a kind and protective cabbie, on the fourteenth floor of Esplanade Point on the Essex coast.<BR/><BR/> But Delph’s protective bubble bursts when Roche moves in with her estranged nan, Moon. Feeling on the outside of the bond between her fierce-yet-flaky tarot-reading mother and volatile martial-arts-champion daughter, Delph begins questioning her own freedom. And when Roche’s snooping into her grandmother’s past unearths a familial line