Jess Penhaligon is on her way to Devon to receive an award for her botanical painting. Hosting her will be Kate, who gladly welcomes her into her home. Jess's own family fell apart several years...

The excesses of the young Marquis of Vidal are even wilder than his father’s before him. Not for nothing is the reckless duellist and gamester called the Devil’s Cub. But when he is forced to...

Wife of successful, handsome Ant and mother of high-achieving, accomplished Anna, Evie’s biggest worry in life is whether or not she can fit a manicure in on her way to fetch Anna from clarinet...

When Sam, Jackie and Anna successfully campaign to save their children's school lollipop lady, they are asked by a TV reporter if they fancy standing in the general election. It is, of course, a...

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...

Zoë Cunningham is delighted when her widowed mother remarries, particularly as her new stepfather is amiable, generous, and the owner of a villa in Nice. Enchanted visits come to an abrupt end...

Three women rent a holiday house in Cornwall for the summer. Each brings with her children, baggage (in every sense) and expectations, in this sparkling follow-up to Goodbye, Jimmy Choo. There's...

Reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street - except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted combover - but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lies a warm...

At 31, Amber is being bombarded with wedding invitations just as she’s collecting her divorce papers - and her bossy best friend has gone one step further and made her chief bridesmaid. It’s...

After 20 years of comfortable marriage, and with the kids finally off her hands, Sarah Lewis realises she has filled the washing machine once too often. Surely there must be more to life than...

Take a year in Soho and a house like no other.From a woman grieving on New Year's Day to a Victorian maid's passion for poetry, from a wartime widower picking up the pieces of his life to a...

High on the cliffs of the west coast of Ireland, overlooking the windswept Atlantic ocean, is Stone House. Once falling into disrepair, it is now a beautiful hotel specialising in winter holidays....

It has been a house of secrets for over sixty years: Bridge House, on the edge of Exmoor, is beautiful and remote, a wild place where the sound of the rushing stream is ever present.Clio is...

Pretty Alice Lacey couldn’t be more different from her sister-in-law, bitter and ambitious Cora. Alice is happily married to John Lacey, Cora to his hapless younger brother, Billy.

When fifteen-year-old Queenie escapes from the squalid slums of 19th-century London, she has no idea about the dangers of the dark world she is about to become embroiled in. Initially thrilled at...