The joy of her liberation from eleven years of marriage is somewhat compromised, Patricia feels, by the arrival of Brian, the lacklustre dog who noses damply into her life as father-substitute for...

Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her husband dies in a bizarre ballooning accident. Seizing upon her new found freedom, she decides to finish the history of their village that Edward had...

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...

Since the death of husband Theo, Jane Fielding has tried to keep Rawlston House for herself and her children, despite money problems. Sam Clarke adores her husband Ben, but struggles with being a...

Siena, a 21st century woman, has so far managed to avoid the ticking of the biological clock – her high-powered career as a stylist, making over tired housewives, has given her a horror of the...

When cautious Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into garden design, she finds a diversion from her studies in her unlikely new friend Françoise Desnoyers, in whose house she is...