With the enchanting backdrop of Lake Starnberg as its setting, the novel features Alexandra 'Sasha' Strauss, a young woman of Japanese and German descent, who finds herself on the cusp of love and career. As she tutors the challenging daughter of Marie Nyman and Arabella Cooper during her last year of university, Sasha's path unexpectedly crosses that of the enigmatic French-Canadian film producer, Dominique Thibault. Dominique, a woman with a mysterious past, is collaborating with the ren...

Sybilla Frank, fledgling star of the new film The Jawlensky Trail, based on Emma Stoiber's captivating book and directed by the talented Juliette Simon, feels her life is perfect. Happily married to her husband Thomas and ascending the career ladder, Sybilla arrives on set for the first day of rehearsals. An immediate confrontation with her co-star, Hannah Snyman, reveals an unprecedented level of antipathy between the two actresses. A stunt gone wrong unexpectedly brings them closer toget...

Set in the glamorous world of opera, the book charts the tempestuous and passionate relationship between the world-famous soprano, Marie Nyman, and Arabella Cooper, a young pianist and aspiring conductor. Marie is married and deeply in the closet, Arabella out and proud. Can Marie overcome her fears and acknowledge the love of her life, as Arabella's career takes off? Two beautiful women battle their demons in locations as diverse as New York, London, Vienna, and Munich.

Anna Westlake is a jobbing political journalist living in Canterbury with her wife, a successful professor. After jumping in for a TV interview outside the Houses of Parliament to help out a sick colleague, she learns that the head of features is impressed by her performance. She is summoned by the BBC, where she is offered the chance to host a late evening political discussion programme. On the way out of the building a defective lift literally pushes her into the arms of the beautiful an...

Sofia Morozova is a leading soloist in the Covent Garden Royal Ballet company. She is unhappily married to an older man and together they have a drink problem, which impacts on her status within the dance company. Her innate discipline means that she fights through the alcoholism to preserve her career. Despite her talent, the spiral is downwards. A car accident after an alcohol-infused dinner party leads to two fateful meetings which will alter her life dramatically. Can Sofia escape her ...

Amber Celeste Reynaud, a young schoolteacher of Huguenot descent, and proud of it, is passionately keen to enter British politics as a member of the Ecology party. Her bête noir is the rich and famous MP for the Business party, Catherine Fitzwilliam. Daughter of a baronet, she is married to a wealthy banker and lives in a fabulous, listed property. Amber loathes her and everything she stands for. A chance meeting in a London theatre leads to a far from polite outburst from Amber, for which...

Lennie Adams is a stage manager and aspiring director working in London's West End. While employed on a dubious revival of Noël Coward's nostalgic play Private Lives, she meets renowned classical actress Melanie Blaine. The beautiful woman is imprisoned in an unhappy marriage to a TV soap star. Their mutual attraction leads to a tour romance. Back in London and struggling to maintain their affair, reality intervenes and a dramatic traffic accident triggers Melanie's repressed guilt. She sp...

Juliette Simon is married, more or less unhappily, and is the most popular folk/pop singer in the German speaking world. She is Marie and Arabella Cooper-Nyman's new neighbour, and lives in her purpose-built villa on Lake Starnberg in Bavaria. She meets and falls in love with one of her backing singers, Jodie Sanchez. Their story is one full of trials and tribulations. Juliette must confront the homophobia rampant in the folk music world. Jodie must decide: her solo career in the USA, or J...

Thea Doukas is on a downward spiral, attempting to recover from a broken heart after her lover Leonie Brandt marries Pia Hartmann. On the rebound, she goes from affair to affair, until she finds some peace staying with Suzanne Weigl and her wife Beth in their house on lake Starnberg.A dilapidated house next door is up for sale and Leonie suggests they buy it together. Thea is doubtful she can ever live so close to Leonie and Pia, until she meets Leonie's best friend Emma Stoiber. Wi...

In the eighth and final book of the Starnberg set series, no couple escapes the grip of misfortune. From a terrifying cancer scare and a child's meningitis to a life-altering car crash in distant Toronto and the unravelling of a once-strong love, this year is a true battleground. As they confront these challenges, their bonds of friendship and support deepen, providing a lifeline through the storm. Amid the turmoil, an older love rekindles: Sybilla's mother, Emmeline Mertens, faces a famil...

In Starnberg Series: Book 3 - Give Me Time, the story unfolds around Leonie Brandt, a nineteen-year-old aspiring artist and theatre designer, daughter of the Cooper-Nyman's housekeeper. Her life takes an intriguing turn when she meets the accomplished young director, Pia Hartmann. Despite an undeniable attraction, Pia hesitates, finding Leonie too youthful for romance. As Leonie starts her career, their paths cross intermittently, sparking a tumultuous mix of longing and frustration. Leoni...