This Description may be from another edition of this product.

Poppy is about to turn eighty. To celebrate, the whole family is gathering: bossy daughter Beryl and her meek husband Rodney; son Richard and his partner Graham; high-flying Maria and her rich husband Mervyn; assorted grandchildren, and even on great-grandchild, would all be converging on her South Coast home. But as they toast their beloved matriarch, little do they know what an extraordinary, and often shocking, life she has led.