Constance Thorne was a foundling, a baby left by her mother for strangers to find. As a child, Connie is aware only of the differences between herself and the Thorne family. While she is musical,...

Alice Peel is a geologist. With a broken relationship behind her, she joins an expedition group working at the end of the earth: Antarctica. James Rooker has been running since his childhood in...

They were the Five Families: the pleasant hospitable Frosts; the brash and sexy Cleggs; flirtatious Jimmy Rose and aloof Star; maternal Vicky and reliable Gordon Ransome; and Michael Wickham with...

Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales to go with her husband to India. Travelling from lonely Ladakh, Nerys discovers a new world in the city of Srinagar. But war draws ever closer, and soon the men...

Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. She invites five of her oldest friends to join her. Then building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of...

Fragility and forgetfulness have left 82-year-old Iris vulnerable and in the care of her manservant, Mahmood. Quiet and claustrophobic, Iris’s house in Cairo is disturbed by the unexpected...

Olivia has settled on the tiny Greek island of Halemni. She is married to a Greek man and is mother of two small sons. As the turquoise of summer dissolves into the cool of autumn, so the rhythm...