Esme: eldest child, control-freak, perfect wife. In fact, her husband has run off with his dentist and their teenage daughter is live-tweeting the entire mess to her 3,000 followers.Liv: middle child, fiancé stealer, squatter. Holed up in her ex-husband's apartment with her acupuncturist and a bottle of whiskey.Ru: youngest child, writer, runaway. Hopes to find inspiration for her second novel whilst fleeing her fiancé....

A perfect Mother's Day treat! Fans of Jane Green and Marian Keyes will love these two novels from Bridget Asher. Plus My Husband’s Sweethearts has been optioned for a Hollywood film starring Julia Roberts.My Husband’s SweetheartsLucy Shoreman discovers in one fell swoop not only that her husband, Artie, has been cheating on her, but that his heart is failing and he’s dying. So in a drunken moment she takes his little black book and ...

Every good love story has another love hiding within it.Brokenhearted, still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbott, her troubled eight-year-old son, and Charlotte, her intolerably jaded sixteen-year-old niece, to spend the summer repairing their family home in a small village in the south of France.The rundown stone house in Provence has been in the family for generations and is the centre of a lovely myth. The family tells and retells stories of the m...

A funny and fiercely perceptive novel about a happily married woman and the little white lie that changed everything…For Gwen Merchant, love has always been doled out in little packets - from her widowed father and from her safe and respectable husband, Peter.But when an old college boyfriend, the irrepressible Elliot Hull, invites himself back into Gwen's life with a surprising proposition, she suddenly starts questioning everything she's ever expected from love.El...

An unforgettable novel of love and loss, revenge and forgiveness...Lucy Shoreman discovers in one fell swoop that not only has her husband Artie been cheating on her, but that his heart is failing and he's dying.So in a drunken moment she takes his little black book, and dials up all his former lovers, asking them to schedule their turn caring for him on his death bed. After all, they were there for the good times, so why should she deal with the bad times on her own?

At Madeline's Tea Salon, the cozy hub of the Avalon community, six women find their memories are shaping their future.Young Connie Colls, fiercely independent and full of promise longs for a past she never had. Isabel Kidd is anxious to move forward but is still paralysed by the consequences of her late husband's love affair. After spending many years living a life on her own terms, Yvonne Tate finds that she can't outwit her past. For Ava Catalina, reaching out to hold on to preci...

The renovations to 34 via del Duomo now complete, Marlena de Blasi, the bestselling international author and woman with the 'fairytale life', longs to find time and space to finish a book. Lured by a friend's offer of a simple stone cottage in a remote province of western Tuscany and distant from the distractions of everyday life in Orvieto, she sets off for a period of solitude. Enter Antonia. Imperious, tempestuous, Antonia is the still-stunning elderly matriarch of a complicated family ...

Sometimes you stumble across a treasure when you're looking for something else entirely.No.1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs brings readers to the lush abundance of Sonoma County in a novel of sisters, friendship and how memories are woven like a spell around us.Tess Delaney makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners. People like Annelise Winther, who refuses to sell her long–gone mother's beloved necklace – despite Tess's advice. To An...

Drawing on the same rich vein of modern family life mined in PACKED TO THE RAFTERS, the idyllic life of two empty nesters is shattered when all three of their adult children suddenly return home to stay - indefinitely.A tender and tangled tale of family that will make you laugh and cry - and want to phone home ... ' takes on the age-old topic of parents and children and their children with a fresh perspective, a canny understanding of human emotion, and the absolute best dialogue I ...

Home is where the heart is – but what happens to your heart when the people you love are scattered around the world?Hannah and Matt are very happy together, living in London's cool East End with their two young children. Hannah has a job she loves as a beauty editor and Matt is always just about to break through as a songwriter.But then events start to pull them apart, with Hannah certain they'd be much better off down in the English countryside with her family – and Matt's m...

A beautifully written, funny, intelligent and heartwarming novel about a young woman who leaves the city for her home town where she falls in love with a wonderful man - and does much more besides.In the wake of an unfortunate best-friend-and-boyfriend-caught-having-sex-in-a-chair incident, Jo Donnelly flees her civilised city life to take up a temporary job at the physiotherapy clinic in her small home town.Jo is ineptly assisted at work by a receptionist ...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'Funny, moving and erudite, playfully reminding us of a contemporary Jane Austen'Daily Mail'Astoundingly joyful'Guardian'Alarmingly funny'Times Literary SupplementAfter Mia's husband of thirty years asks for a 'pause', to indul...