Watching From The Wings

What happens when the fairy tale you thought you wanted at twenty-two feels like a prison forty years later? Watching From the Wings is a heart-warming story of devotion, friendship, joy and passion, but also one involving disappointment, duplicity and betrayal. We all have our own journey of love. Katharine's is more complex than most. And she comes to realise that she has always chosen the wrong door whenever she had the chance to exit by a more promising one. Can she make a fresh start, or is it too late?

Christine Webber tried various careers in her younger days - she was a classical singer, a Principal Boy in pantomimes, an undistinguished actress as well as a piano and singing teacher. Eventually, she managed to land a job in television as a continuity announcer, and shortly thereafter she became a news presenter at Anglia TV. Finally, she had found an occupation she liked that other people thought she was good at. This was a massive relief. In her early forties, she married the love of her life, media doctor, David Delvin. Soon afterwards, she decided it was time to leave news presenting to train as a psychotherapist and she also became a problem page columnist for various publications including TV Times, Best, BBC Parenting, The Scotsman and Woman. In addition, she regularly broadcast relationship advice on Trisha, The Good Sex Guide ...Late and from the BBC's Breakfast sofa. Later, she and her husband set up a practice in Harley Street, and they worked together there and collaborated on several books, websites and newspaper columns. Over the decades, Christine was commissioned to write ten self-help books including Get the Happiness Habit, How to Mend a Broken Heart and Too Young to Get Old. Now, in her seventies, she makes video podcasts on positive ageing and writes newspaper columns on the same subject. Additionally, she writes novels for and about older people. Her previous titles in this genre are Who'd Have Thought It?, It's Who We Are and So Many Ways of Loving.