Joan's answer to life after divorce from Jack is simple: happy seclusion. She rejects the outside world and embarks on a contented existence of isolated self-indulgence. But when her nice...

Lovely home, lovely husband, lovely family; apart from the envy of her less contented sister, everything in Dilys's rags-to-riches life is lovely, lovely, lovely. Until the day she meets a man at...

Plump, virginal Janice Gentle reluctantly writes her delicate romances with one goal in mind: to make enough money to find the man she loved and lost twenty years ago. Before she begins each book...

When sixteen-year-old Marianne Flowers is invited to a party in a genteel house she has no idea that the house and what she experiences there will change her life. Not to mention the boy who...

When city girl Molly Bonner arrives in the village of Lufferton Boney, she creates quite a stir. With her determined manner and alluring looks, she sets off a wave of intrigue that ripples through...

Tabitha’s Beauty Parlour is a haven. The women who cross its portals enter a perfumed world where never a harsh note is struck. To Tabitha, Beauty is a broad canvas from which she will draw out...

The joy of her liberation from eleven years of marriage is somewhat compromised, Patricia feels, by the arrival of Brian, the lacklustre dog who noses damply into her life as father-substitute for...

Diana owns a bookshop, is thirty-something, and is single again after a long relationship. The Brahms Requiem was once her favourite piece of music, but now she cannot listen to it without it...

Nina Porter seems to have it all: husband, home, family and security. But her life turns upside down when a marital row over truthfulness sets her thinking. Isn’t she dishonest herself, always...