Seen from the perspectives of three very different women, Charlotte, Alice and Anna, this novel follows the first few turbulent years following the break up of a marriage.
When Charlotte leaves her husband Steven to live with her lover Jeremy she naturally assumes that her six year old son Tom will live with them and that Jeremy's teenage daughter Octavia will live with his ex-wife Alice.
But it doesn’t work out like that.
Publicly and privately humiliated by her betrayal, Steven isn’t content to sit back and accept the situation.
And Alice is happy to leave her troublesome daughter Octavia with Jeremy and Charlotte to look after.
As the children come and go between step-families, rivalries, jealousies and resentments escalate, and it remains to be seen which, if any, of these three relationships will work out.

Set in the 1970s, a time when it was socially unacceptable to be an unmarried mother, this is the story of nineteen-year-old Jemma who is forced to abandon her plans for a career when she finds out she is pregnant.
Trapped at home with a baby, intellectually stifled and missing all her friends who have gone away to study, Jemma seems to have made the wrong choice.
But has she?
In a different version of events we follow Jemma as she goes through university, meets new people, makes new friends and relationships, and embarks on the career she always wanted.
This look at alternative reality leaves you to wonder if you would be any happier if your life had taken a different course.

A young journalist is sent to interview Lady Currisford in her ancestral home before it is taken over by the National Trust.
Just getting over a failed relationship, the journalist is unsettled when the photographer accompanying her bears a strong resemblance to her former lover.
Like all old houses, Currisford Place is said to be haunted, but the journalist doesn’t believe in ghosts.
The house does have an effect on her though, and the night she spends there will change her life irrevocably.

Based on the correspondence between by my parents-in-law in the 1930’s and 40’s, this is the story of a young couple separated for five years by the advent of the Second World War.
A first-hand account of life in England at this turbulent time and a unique insight into the experiences of Active Service at home and abroad, but most of all the story of a love that crossed counties and continents and went on to last a lifetime.

Retirement comes too early for Peter and Emily Stanchester. He misses his routine and the feeling of being important and useful. She misses her freedom and her friends at work.
Trapped together in their tiny retirement home in Lyme Regis their once happy marriage begins to fall apart. When they meet local artist Poppy James they both fall under her spell.
But is Poppy really who she says she is? And what exactly does she want from them?