In April, when blackthorn blossom clothes the hedgerows like a wedding veil, there sometimes comes a spell of frost or snow so severe that it seems as if spring and summer will never return. This...

When Jodie Roberts goes missing from a sleepy Dorset village, the repercussions that reverberate through the small community are as far-reaching as they are devastating.

Rachel begins...

A couple of books bought secondhand from a village jumble sale; in the front, a name—Johnnie Bearsden—scrawled in a childish hand. This is all it takes for old wounds to open and rumours to...

Lady Pamela Bentham is old, difficult, and disliked by most of her family, who plot unceasingly to evict her from the lovely Somerset house which has been her home all her married life. Once...

Kate and Josh Hutchins have been married for thirty years. For all that time they have lived on Dancing Hill Farm in Dorset. Here they brought up three children, expected to grow old, and imagined...

When Emily Kingsley arrives at the church for her eccentric Great-Aunt Mary’s funeral, she is still grieving for her broken relationship with the mean and unfaithful Ted, and has little sorrow...