Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble...

When Kit and Adam separated after almost fifteen years of marriage, Kit felt she had lost everything in one fell swoop. But now, a year on, she is enjoying life in the idyllic Connecticut town of...

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....

In the rainswept summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold, in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. In a...

Having enjoyed robust health throughout her career, Miss Read, the village schoolmistress at Fairacre, is looking forward to an energetic retirement in a few years’ time. But, to her dismay, she...

Born into a humble mining community, Rhianon and Sabrina Webster live with their stern father, both planning very different futures. Edwin dotes on his youngest daughter, beautiful, flighty...

It is 1970 and there is student unrest throughout England. In a small university in the West Country, Caroline Grimstone, the wife of an ambitious young historian, is also uneasy. Is she an...

Uber-busy Annie Valentine - mum to two demanding children and personal shopper in a swanky London fashion store - is now intent on setting up a shoe and handbag empire of her own, and she’ll do...

It's 1944 and Flora Knox is enjoying a beautiful spring morning in the Swiss mountains, waiting on a railway station platform for a train. As Flora watches, a cattle train draws closer to the...

Baby Frankie is born into an unusual family. Her mother is desperate to find someone to take care of her child and she doesn’t have much time. Noel doesn’t seem to be the most promising of...

Lucy Dean is a young woman of eighteen years with no money, no job and four young brothers and sisters to support. James Buchanan is a young man of thirty-four years with a great fortune, who...

Simon Steinberg and Blaire Scott are among the most respected couples in Hollywood. Simon, a major movie producer, and Blaire, an award-winning television writer, have kept their marriage together...

Alice is living the life she always dreamed of: no ties, no constraints and no worries. An intrepid travel writer, her life is one of carefree adventure, full of spa days, dinner parties and...

Ada Williams was once an ambitious woman who believed money and power would bring her happiness. But now, she is all alone in the world, except for her greedy, bitter son Peter, who despises her...

Rosie doesn’t have to try too hard, doesn’t have to be too witty, too amusing, too beautiful – she’s settled in a cosy relationship. But three years down the line, however, and Rosie’s...