Kelly had always known Barney would leave, but she could never have envisaged how his leaving would turn her whole world upside down. But now he was gone, and she wondered if she would ever see...

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...

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...

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...

Twins Tanwen and Donna Evans are as different as chalk and cheese. Tanwen is pretty, a bubbly extrovert – but selfish and as sharp as a needle. Donna is plain, placid and shy, although...

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...

In this humorous and charming story, Miss Read draws us magically into the world of the primary school. Anna Lacey, a young country girl, is given her first job in Greater London, and as she...

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...

Liverpool, 1945. Three women, the strongest of friends, return home, trying to fit back into their old lives after they've been demobbed. They've been thrown together by the war and shared all...

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...