Ruth and her three small children eagerly await the return of their father who has taken his fishing boat for a refit at a boatyard in the north of Scotland. But in the middle of the night, as the...

Lizzie Miller, the smart and witty East Coast girl clinging for dear life to the bottom rung of the Hollywood ladder, has been promoted. No more coffee runs and sorting thumb tacks by colour...

When sweet, healthy, hearty Holly Fox dies suddenly in childbirth, the Surrey village reverberates with shock. She leaves behind a helpless, silent husband and a tiny daughter, Faith. Everyone...

Newly widowed Poppy Shilling should be feeling distraught at the death of her husband, Phil. But, instead, she can’t help feeling relieved. No longer will she have to endure Phil’s iron fist...

The stories in this long-awaited collection all deal with psychological aspects of love: love given and withheld, love craved and lost, love met and disappointed; the differing shades of loves...

Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by irascible Lord Darracott. The recent drowning of his eldest son has done nothing to improve his temper. For now he must send for the...

On a sun drenched beach in Barbados, feisty sports presenter Charlie meets the irresistibly gorgeous Felipe Castillo. Instantly attracted to each other, they have a passionate affair, until he...

At a remote railway station in Norfolk, Kitty Fulton runs the ticket office and her pet project is the lost and found.
Nothing gives her more pleasure than to reunite possessions with their...

Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the YearEliza Peabody is a dangerous – if blameless – do-gooder. She is too enthusiastic and she talks too much. Her concern for the welfare of the...

For some time I have been planning to murder Helen. It will be a traceless crime, that is the beauty of it. There will be absolutely nothing to link her to me. My name does not appear in her diary...

Kathryn Brooker is the headmaster's wife. While her husband spends his days disciplining unruly teenagers in the grand halls of Mountbriers Academy, Kathryn spends hers baking scones for her son's...

The Cotswold village of Thrush Green is a particularly close-knit community, where many of the inhabitants have known each other since childhood, and any unusual events are quickly noted. The...

Tess believed matrimony was for life - until her husband decided that their marriage was the relationship equivalent of a starter home: cramped, claustrophobic and something he's definitely...

CC is trapped by a job she no longer loves in an unfriendly city. So when her new boyfriend decides it's time to sell up and move to the South of France, she decides in seconds to change her life....

Hattie has a difficult if loving partner, Martyn; an absentee mother, Lallie; and a cynical if attentive grandmother, Frances. She tries to do the right and moral thing in a tricky world, and...