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...

From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, Eleanora, from London. The epochs of her life pass before her: emigration to America in the 1920s, a romantic...

Born in 1887, brought up in a children’s home and by reluctant relatives, Evie, with her wild hair, seems a quiet, undemanding child. Shona, born almost seventy years later, is headstrong and...

In ‘Prized Possessions', Jessica Stirling introduced the Conway women: indomitable Lizzie, who endures despite everything that life in Glasgow’s notorious Gorbals slums can throw at her, and...

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...

There’s one thing Lucy Lombard can’t live without, and that’s chocolate – rich, creamy, sweet, delicious chocolate. For her there’s no substitute. There’s nothing it won’t cure, from...

Nearly twenty-five years after a tragic accident forced Mim to give up her career as one of the world’s leading ballerinas, history is repeating itself. Daisy, Mim’s most talented former...

Meet the Dobsons and the Jamiesons: two families on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

Joe Dobson left his wife and his kids when his young girlfriend, Nina, discovered she was pregnant....

A harassed single mother (of almost teenaged Flora), Annie O’Harran has escaped her faithless first husband with a few shreds of dignity intact, and against all expectations met her hero: David...

1968, with the Swinging Sixties sliding into decadence, finds Nicholas Darrow wrestling with overwhelming personal problems: how can he bring himself to marry his fiancée, Rosalind, when he is...

Sadie’s life is calm and complete. She is a mother, a good friend, and the robust survivor of a marriage she deliberately left behind. She has come to believe that she has everything she wants,...

Harry’s babyhood was blighted by a brutal stepfather. However, when he was five his mother, Sali, finally met and married a decent man – Lloyd Evans, a Rhondda coal miner. Loved and cosseted...

When Louise Parry arrives at Foxhole for her summer holiday, she is welcomed by kind, sensitive Brigid Foster and her incorrigible, elderly mother, Frummie.

Amid the peace of Dartmoor,...

What do Mrs H., Rachel, Edwina, Ida, Sarah, Dot and Chrissie have in common? They’re all women, but they’re as diverse as human nature can be. But they are all survivors. This enthralling...

April 1951. It is twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, and since Manderley, the ancient family seat, was razed to the ground. Now, family friend...