Spilt Milk, Black Coffee

Helen Cross was born in 1967 and brought up in East Yorkshire. She is the author of two previous novels: The Secrets She Keeps and My Summer of Love, which won a Betty Trask Prize and was made into an award-winning film. She lives in Birmingham.
Handsome Amir, somewhere in his twenties, somewhere in a Yorkshire town, is torn between duty and lust. While his tradition-bound family urges him to choose a wife from a parade of blank and bashful beautie