Amelia was an exceptional young woman. She had a grandmother whom she loved, a mother whom she bore with patient fortitude and Gerald - her boyfriend. When Amelia's life starts to collapse around her she finds herself capable of plots, diversions and friendships she had never before encountered.[...]
Amelia was an exceptional young woman. She had a grandmother whom she loved, a mother whom she bore with patient fortitude and Gerald - her boyfriend. When Amelia's life starts to collapse around her she finds herself capable of plots, diversions and friendships she had never before encountered.[...]
By the time Grace is 18, she has been orphaned, moved countries and lost touch with her only brother. She decides to revisit her past in America, and she's brought her camera. Some years later, now divorced and flourishing as a controversial photographer, Grace lives alone. Until Grace finds that sh[...]
Rebecca Finch is a highly successful romantic novelist who has fallen out of love with love. When she heads off for a weekend in Paris and doesn't care that she has absent-mindedly left her boyfriend on the platform in Waterloo, things look bad. But when her god-daughter, struck with pre-wedding jit[...]
Amelia Lindsey is an exceptional young woman. She shares her days between a grandmother whom she loves, a mother whom she tolerates with patient fortitude, and Gerald. They had fallen in love with Amelia two years earlier, when he was in his artistic phase, and had begged her to move in with him. No[...]
It is winter in London. Eliza Cummings, a ceramics restorer at the V&A Museum, is leaving work when she receives an unexpected phone call. Standing in the haze of the Christmas lights she hears a voice which draws her back twenty-five years - to the tragic death of her best friend. But why does Ros[...]
At thirty-nine, Liberty Turner, mother of an illegitimate and nearly grown-up son, and daughter of a flamboyant father who had never grown up, realised that she had no talent. Once, in more prosperous times, her books had been published. Now, as relentless rejections pulverised her every effort, she[...]
'A life lived in fear is a life half lived,' Clementine Hope's sister, Ophelia, is fond of quoting to her. Clementine, thirty-something and newly divorced, lives in a small Hampshire town, teaching music and working on a collection of fairy tales left to her by her Great Aunt Elvira. But mostly sh[...]
Kvinnor drömmer, som i alla tider, om den stora dagen. Vi gifter oss och gifter om oss, medan skilsmässostatistiken stiger. Varje brud, varje gång, säger:"Denna gång blir det annorlunda."
Jag känner till det så väl själv. En kväll för fyra år sen satt jag på en r[...]
Kvinnor drömmer, som i alla tider, om den stora dagen. Vi gifter oss och gifter om oss, medan skilsmässostatistiken stiger. Varje brud, varje gång, säger: "Denna gång blir det annorlunda." Jag känner till det så väl själv. En kväll för fyra år sen satt jag på en restaurang med en advoka[...]