Counting Wild Strawberries

In Counting Wild Strawberries, Ewan and Kate have the perfect life together. But then, after twenty years of marriage, Ewan meets someone else while working in Frankfurt... Gilda, a vivacious and headstrong young German. What starts out as a distraction from his life as a week-day expat deepens into something much more, sending shockwaves through his perfect world.

Kate, a calm and dependable wife and mother, has always taken a backseat in life. But when Ewan tells her about the affair, she is determined to take the reins. She wants to find out more about this woman who is threatening her marriage and asks to meet Gilda in Frankfurt. Gilda is intrigued and agrees, only to find she ends up having admiration and respect for Kate’s open-heartedness.

Ewan also realises his love for Kate is still as strong as ever. The relationship ends and an improbable friendship develops between the three of them. Ewan and Kate have always enjoyed off-beat holidays and decide to invite Gilda to go on some trips with them. Cycling together through the countryside of northern Spain, trekking together in Nepalese valleys and Himalayan mountains, these travels take readers on vivid, eventful and, at times, hilarious journeys. But it is Ewan, Kate and Gilda’s journey as people that is at the real heart of the story, as they all find clues as to how better to deal with life and love.