Twenty years of marriage to the older Max has seen Prue, forty-one, through the stresses of a resentful stepdaughter as well as motherhood. When her petulant, beautiful stepdaughter, Violet,...

Agnes Campion is thirty when she inherits Flagge House from her uncle. Together with its resident aunts, it feels more of a burden than an inheritance. As she struggles with its upkeep, she...

Minty Lloyd is struggling to make her life work as Nathan’s second wife. Mother to six-year-old twins, sidelined at family gatherings by Nathan’s hostile family, ostracized by his friends, she...