Two women worlds apart...one secret that changes everything.Erin and Laura are cousins and best friends who share a love of languages and travel.Erin, a French teacher in Dublin, reaches crisis point and drops everything to move to Australia. In Sydney, not only does she land the perfect job, but she meets the perfect man. Finally, her life is falling into place. Except Sydney isn't home, and never can be.Back in Ireland, Laura is struggling. Her husband appe...

Can we ever really leave our past behind?From an early age, Caitlin O'Reilly was taught by her father to strive for nothing short of perfection. Growing up in a small town in the North of Ireland, she tries to live up to his expectations, and when she goes to university and falls in love for the first time, she thinks everything really is perfect. Until one day when the town, her love and her family, are completely destroyed.Ten years later, Caitlin has created a new life f...

Niamh Lynch appears to have it all: a high-flying career, a handsome, successful husband and a loving family. But looks can be deceiving.From the moment she has to deliver the terrible news that there will be heavy redundancies at her workplace, her marriage crumbles and her life falls apart.Certain cracks have been there for a long time, since her family left Ireland. Others are new. Who will catch her as she falls? Her mother whom she can't forgive? Her father from his gr...

Katie Horgan is going places: soon she'll be a partner in the prestigious law firm where she works. But her love life is going nowhere-until she meets Jim Donnelly. Jim is brilliant, handsome and, like her parents, Irish. The only problem is that he already has a girlfriend.When Katie is sent to Ireland as part of her training, she happily settles into life in Dublin where she works in a clinic that provides free legal advice to the homeless. She befriends Mags who makes it her bus...

Claire Quinlan is unlucky in love and fed up with her life in Dublin. So when an opportunity arises to transfer to the Sydney office of her company, she grabs it. She sets up house in Bondi with her old friend Fiona, finds a new boyfriend Paul, and is sure that her life has changed for the better.But her new job and boyfriend are more challenging than she imagined. She finds herself falling for the handsome American vice-president, Robert Pozos. Robert is sophisticated and charming...

Sarah Ryan grows up in her grandmother's house in a small Irish village. Sarah is clever and ambitious and eager to move away from the sleepy village. She fully believes that John Delaney, the boy-next-door and her first love, will be right by her side... until he breaks her heart.Jodi Tyler is raised on Sydney's northern beaches amidst a close and loving family. But Jodi has a secret, a tragic secret which leaves her determined to make a success of her life. Like Sarah, Jodi's gra...

Are some things better left unfound?Best friends Louise and Emma grew up next door to each other in a grim inner-city suburb of Dublin.Now Louise, an art conservator, is thousands of miles away in Sydney, restoring a beautiful old painting. She meets Dan, whose family welcome her as one of their own, but she will always feel lost until she finds her mother who walked out when she was just eight years old.Back in Dublin, Emma is stuck in a job where she is under-appr...

'A wonderful writer of addictive stories' - LIANE MORIARTY'A thrilling and moving read that deserves to be a bestseller' - LISA BALLANTYNE'A genuine page-turner... a real winner' - IRISH INDEPENDENT________________________________________A KILLER TWENTY-YEAR REUNION.AND YOU'RE INVITED...Twenty years after they went their separate ways,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLY BEST CRIME FICTION AWARD'B.M. Carroll is a wonderful writer' - LIANE MORIARTY'A true page-turner, relentlessly fast-paced' - KATIE LOWE'Well written and very, very clever' - A.J. PARK'I absolutely loved it. Gripping and twisty' - SOPHIE FLYNNWOULD YOU SAVE THE MANWHO DESTROYED YOUR LIFE?When ...

“Dianne is one of Australia’s most beloved writers of women’s fiction and if you haven’t yet read any of her books, you’re in for a special treat.” — Liane MoriartyIt’s 1980, and Kathryn Rowland is young and ambitious. She has precise plans drawn out for her future and no one — not demanding parents, nor romantic entanglements — is going to get in her way.But then she meets Jack Gallagher. As one of the top fashion photographers in the country Jack knows al...

Don’t miss the chilling new psychological thriller from A.L. Bird, author of The Good Mother and Don’t Say a Word, perfect for fans of C L Taylor, Sherryl Brown and Lisa Hall.Letting go of your daughter for the first time isn’t easy…After years of IVF, Kirsten White is a devoted mum to Harriet – and she can’t believe the time has come to send her little girl off to school. But Harriet has now turned five, and she can’t stay Kirsten’s baby ...

Jo had learned the hard way that life was not mystical, or magical; it was hard and grey and cold most of the time. Much better to see it for what it is than to be perennially disappointed.It's not as though Jo Liddell never had dreams. She was going to be a journalist and travel the world, but life had a way of stealing her dreams right out from under her. Okay, she had her column, but heaven forbid she had an opinion about anything that mattered. And now that she...