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....

'Every good love story has another love hiding within it.'Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbott, her obsessive-compulsive seven-year-old son, and Charlotte, her jaded sixteen-year-old niece, to the small village of Puyloubier in the south of France, where a crumbling stone house may be responsible for mending hearts since before World War II.There, Heidi discovers a shocking secret and learns the truth about her mother's ...

England 1918. Young Lady Helen believes her parents when they say she will never find a better husband than Richard - 'brave, handsome, wealthy, such a charming man and quite a catch'. But when her soldier husband returns to war, Helen begins to wonder just who it is she has married - his letters home are cold and distant - and Helen realises that she has made a terrible mistake. And that's when Oliver Donovan enters her life. They begin an affair that leaves Helen pregnant and alone, and ...

Ever experienced deja vu? An enchanting and magical novel about reincarnation from the author of Could It Be Magic?When Michaela Anderson signs up for a parachute jump she gets more than a case of vertigo…When Michaela Anderson signs up for a parachute jump she gets more than a case of vertigo…Suffering last-minute panic, Michaela’s three colleagues go first. But just as she takes her leap of faith, an almighty gale blows up from nowhere.When she returns to ...

One house. Two worlds. A love that defies time.When Eva’s filmstar sister Katrina dies, she leaves California and returns to Trelowarth, Cornwall, where they spent their childhood summers, to scatter Katrina’s ashes and in doing so return her to the place where she belongs.But Eva must also confront the ghosts from her own past, as well as those from a time long before her own. For the house where she so often stayed as a child is home not only to her old f...

Disfigured by the blow of an abusive husband, the widow Mary McAllister has spent almost sixty years secluded in a white marble mansion overlooking the town of Mill River, Vermont. Her links to the outside world are few: the mail, an elderly priest, and a bedroom window with a view of the town below.Most longtime residents of Mill River consider the marble house and its occupant peculiar, and few of them have ever seen Mary. But three newcomers - a police officer and his daughter a...

1982: Girl meets boy at a champagne-fuelled book launch. After they share a joke at a celebrity's expense, nothing can ever be the same again. 1958: Two young women go to a ball in home-made dresses. When they catch the eye of their hostess's sons, everything changes. 1939: A young woman sits crying in a Harley Street waiting room. When a motherly stranger offers her sanctuary, her life takes an unexpected twist. Dora Jerusalem hits London...

The healing power of friendship works like a charmThe Cambridge University witches meet every month on the roof of one of the city's many colleges to discuss books and more, but lately the ties that bind them have begun to unravel.Amandine has the power to feel the emotions of those around her. Noa's ability is to hear others' innermost thoughts and secrets. Kat struggles with unrequited love, but refuses to use magic to win anyone's heart. Her sister, Cosi...

Snubbed by her best friend, Rom flees from her humiliation and encounters a stranger whose kiss changes everything. Join her as she embarks on a quest to find the man of her dreams…Exclusive extra material available in this e-book edition!Romily Parker is a woman on a mission. On the last Saturday before Christmas, (shortly after disastrously declaring her undying love for her best friend, Charlie) Romily has a sudden, brief encounter with a gorgeous stranger who might, jus...

From Whitbread Novel Award-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Justin Cartwright comes an intimate exploration of one man's relationship with South Africa and its turbulent history'Justin Cartwright is one of our best novelists' Telegraph'Cartwright is as accomplished as anyone writing fiction today' Scotsman***'***This is Cartwright at his best, delivering a strong story with skill

12-year-old Harper Richardson's parents are divorced. Her mum got custody of her, the Mini, and five hundred tins of baked beans. Her dad got a mouldering cottage in a Midlands backwater village and default membership of the Lone Rangers single parents' club. Harper got questionable dress sense, a zest for life, two gerbils, and her Chambers dictionary, and the responsibility of fixing her parents' broken hearts...Set against a backdrop of high hairdos and...

A young woman is thrust back into the midst of the dysfunctional, secretive family she escaped in this "heart-piercing psychological drama…a stunner" (Carol Cassella, author of Oxygen).At twenty-one, Tallulah Park lives alone. There's a sink in her bedroom and a strange damp smell that means she wakes up wheezing. It's far from luxurious, but it's far away from her difficult family. Then she gets the call that her father has had a heart att...