Miss Webster and Chérif by Patricia Duncker

This is a novel you could happily give to anyone in your life – mother, daughter, brother, sister.  A witty and charming tale of redemption – we are never too old to learn a new way of living. 

Elizabeth Webster is a spinster pushing seventy. Forced out of her teaching job, she unleashes her sharp tongue and dogmatic opinions on everyone in the English village of Little Blessington.

Then, one night, she grinds to a dead halt. To recover from this illness, she travels to North Africa where she has a brush with terrorism – not that she cares about politics. Three weeks after Miss Webster has returned home her doorbell rings. There stands a beautiful young Arab man carrying a large suitcase. Who is he, why is he there and what does he want?