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...

Joan's answer to life after divorce from Jack is simple: happy seclusion. She rejects the outside world and embarks on a contented existence of isolated self-indulgence. But when her nice...

It is Liverpool, 1939. The Second World War is about to start when pretty Laura Oliver meets Queenie Todd. Laura is twenty-one and happily married, whereas plain Queenie is only fourteen and has...

Fairacre's retired schoolmistress was looking ahead joyfully to an easier way of life. But right from the start Miss Read receives lots of advice on how to spend it. Then there are the many...

Personal shopper Annie Valentine is about to hit the big time: presenting a glamorous TV makeover series! But too late, Annie discovers this is TV on a shoestring. They’re paying her buttons and...

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...

It’s nearly thirty years since the Chadwick siblings arrived at the Keep in Devon to live with their grandmother, Freddy. And while much has altered since then, the Keep remains a sanctuary for...

Fairacre is a village of cottages, a church and the school - and, at the heart of the school, its head mistress Miss Read. Through her discerning eye, we meet the villagers of Fairacre and see...

With surgical precision, ‘Love’ charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband, and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation and...

This is the story of Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. When her husband discovers her deception, he exacts a terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him...

The village school is a hundred years old, and Miss Read, the schoolmistress, is fully occupied trying to recapture the march of those full and busy years under its roof. But that’s not all Miss...

'The Jewel in the Crown' is the first book in Paul Scott's sequence of novels about the last years of British rule in India.

In the India of 1942, two rapes take place simultaneously -...

When a naive encounter at a Coronation party leaves 16-year-old Janet Slater pregnant there's no question in her scandalised parents' mind of her keeping the baby. Bundled off to a home for...

When sixteen-year-old Marianne Flowers is invited to a party in a genteel house she has no idea that the house and what she experiences there will change her life. Not to mention the boy who...

Silverue - an enchanting Irish mansion - is owned by one of the most frightening mothers in fiction: the indomitable, oppressively girlish, Lady Bird. Blessed with wealth and beautiful children...