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...

Gemma Garvey’s marriage has been over for ages. And it was Gemma’s choice to end it; her decision to go it alone with two kids rather than pretend the marriage to career-obsessed David was...

Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other’s sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No...

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...

This delightful novel describes the post-war summer of 1946 – and follows the growing-up of three young women in the months between leaving school and taking up their scholarships at university...

Herz is seventy-three and facing the difficult question: what is he going to do with the rest of his life? How is it all going to end? He could propose marriage to an old friend he hasn’t seen...

Jo Mackenzie needs a new start. Newly widowed with two young sons and a perilous bank balance, she has to leave London to take over her grandmother’s wool shop. They arrive in the pouring rain....

Ten years have passed since Roz committed the ultimate sin of motherhood: she left her family behind when she walked out on her husband.Now, drawn back into that world by the death of their...

Mary Barton is the daughter of a good and upright trade unionist, John Barton. She attracts two men, Jem Wilson, a fellow worker, and Henry Carson, son of her father’s employer. When the union...

Twistleton is a village untouched by time. Daisy, Jean, Freddie and their friends Aurelia and Laura are devoted to the place, so that when war breaks out Twistleton becomes the embodiment of...

It is 1938, and little Josie Flynn is sitting at the top of the stairs outside her attic room in Liverpool, her beautiful prostitute mother nearby. She doesn’t know that her long and often...

Sarah Roberts used to be good. Then she did something bad. Very bad...

Now, years later, she’s living a good life. She works as a local newspaper reporter and lives with her saintly...

After a lifetime of dancing and a failed marriage, Angelica’s running away again. But this time, she’s run right back to where it all started...

In a last attempt to save their...

Artist’s daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood, an unhappy wartime marriage, three children and the one man she truly loved. Yet she is far too...

Everyone knows the story of the Ark. The flood rising, the animals entering two by two, Noah. But what about the women and children? Did they all accept Noah’s orders to ignore their friends and...