Fourteen-year-old Trixie Jackson hoped she had a future to look forward to. But when she is sacked from the local factory she is forced to work as a housekeeper for one of her father's friends - a...

It's been a busy few years since Jo Mackenzie lost her husband. Life has brought adventure, surprises, unexpected pleasures, and, of course, lots of knitting. Jo's seaside yarn shop, with a brand...

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...

Married to Helen, but tangled up with Binny, Edward understands, with a tender pang, how Binny has been denied those small intimacies that a wife takes for granted. Choosing a birthday present for...

Rich and handsome, the hope of ambitious mothers and despair of his sisters, the Marquis of Alverstoke sees no reason to put himself out for anyone. But when a distant connection applies to him...

'The Long View' is an accurate and revealing portrait of the marriage of Antonia and Conrad Fleming. The ingenious construction of their story offers a remarkable and very real view of the...

Fate has not been kind to Gemma Hardy. Orphaned by the age of ten, neglected by a bitter and cruel aunt, sent to a boarding school where she was both servant and student, young Gemma seemed...

After 20 years of comfortable marriage, and with the kids finally off her hands, Sarah Lewis realises she has filled the washing machine once too often. Surely there must be more to life than...

The honourable Christopher Fancot, on leave from the Diplomatic Service in the summer of 1817, is startled to find his entrancing but incorrigibly extravagant mother on the brink of financial and...

Claire Doheney, recovering from a serious illness, agrees to house-sit an oceanfront mansion on Chappaquiddick Island in Martha's Vineyard. The New York book editor hopes to find solace, strength,...

Georgie and Flick are a girl’s best friend - and secret weapon. Their agency, 'Domestic Angels', provides invaluable help to armies of harassed women. After years of hard work, Georgie and Flick...

Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she is an orphan and has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry's work is back-breaking...

When paratrooper Corporal Reith Douglas received a head injury in Greece during the Second World War, he might well have anticipated a hero’s welcome on his return home. But it would have helped...

For sixteen-year-old Mary Harris, growing up in Rotherhithe in 1934 has its ups and downs.

She has a good job in a biscuit factory and a best friend, Liz, who's fun to be with, but...

This is Judith Earle's story - her solitary childhood spent in the seclusion of her riverside house, her awkward, intense experiences at Cambridge rounded with passion and disillusionment, and her...