Elizabeth and Betsy knew each other as school-children. When they meet again in later life one is safely married, the other most unsafely partnered. They discover that what they have in common is...

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...

Paul Sturgis is a retired banker who lives alone. He walks alone and dines alone, taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers. Trying to make sense of his current solitary state, Sturgis...

When Rachel becomes involved in the lives of the Livingstones it is with an acute appreciation of their home - beautifully furnished and richly decorated. They have won an undisclosed amount of...

Claire Pitt, twenty-nine and solitary, works in the basement of a second-hand bookshop, where she prepares articles for eventual publication as a posthumous tribute to the deceased owner. Few...

Paul Sturgis is a retired bank manager who lives alone in a dark little flat. He walks alone and dines alone, seeking out and taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers. His only relative,...

Born to elegant but frivolous parents, Harriet grows up ignored and unguided, and retains a curious innocence that neither her marriage to Freddie Lytton, nor her friendship with the beautiful...

Zoë Cunningham is delighted when her widowed mother remarries, particularly as her new stepfather is amiable, generous, and the owner of a villa in Nice. Enchanted visits come to an abrupt end...

Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams.

Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and...