A child’s survival without food is a miracle waiting to happen for believers and a minefield of secrets for the sceptical.

In matters of the heart, no-one ever really grows old.

A fifty-plus, office-working, martini-sipping, music- and dance-loving divorced mother of two adult children, Gloria Bell isn’t afraid of flying solo. But then she meets fellow divorcé and former Marine Arnold.

A left-field, New York–based photographer, Ronit has returned to London for her rabbi father’s funeral. She has lapsed from the faith, which its adherents resent, but even more taboo is her rekindled affair with her childhood lover.