Parlour Games (1989)
Celia, housewife, mother and wonderful cook, is celebrating her fortieth birthday. In her smart London home, her major worries are private schooling and the misplaced zeal of Neighbourhood Watch vigilantes. But the house of cards collapse around her, as friends and a sister turn edgy and fickle, a long-time admirer turns into a crude jester, and Celia spies her husband embracing a ghastly woman ia a Come Dancing frock.

ISBN 0-571-22588-8

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Dog Days(1990)
The joy of her liberation from eleven years of marriage is somewhat compromised, Patricia feels, by the arrival of Brian, the lacklustre dog who noses damply into her life as father-substitute for ten-year-old Rachel. In spite of all this Patricia is more than ready for a fulfilled life as a single parent.

Sleeping Beauties
Tabitha's Beauty Parlour is a haven. The women who cross its portals enter a perfumed world where never a hard note is struck. To Tabitha, beauty is a broad canvas from which she will draw out what she can. But when Chloe, Tabitha's trainee, sets out to prove that she can give her clients the makeover of a lifetime, the quest for feminine perfection achieves hilarious consequences...

ISBN 0-571-22589-6

Getting Back Brahms
Diana owns a bookshop, is thirty-something and is single again after a long relationship. The Brahms Requiem was once her favourite piece of music. Now she cannot listen to it without it stirring painful memories with her old love. She is determined to supplant the old memories with something new and, in her quest for a memory to superimpose on the past, joins the team intending to open the Academy of Forward Literature at Hassocks Hall...

ISBN 0-571-19227-0        

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Mrs Fytton's Country Life
Angela Fytton - wonderwife, supermother, bedroom vamp and business partner - has been unceremoniously dumped. Like many a good wife before her she has been swapped by her husband for a younger model. Wanting to start over, she moves to the country with the notion that country life is pure and good and that country people are next to angels - and finds this is very far from the truth.

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The Sex Life of my Aunt
Lovely home, lovely husband, lovely family: apart from the envy of her less contented sister, everything in Dily's rags-to-riches life is lovely, lovely, lovely. Until the day she meets a man at a railway station who is also - lovely.
As she hurtles towards either her destrucion or her liberation she discovers that deceit is in the blueprint of our birth, that ancient Aunts have their own dark secrets, that envious sisters have their reasons. And that when Brief Encounters meet Basic Instincts, the right choice, like truth, is rarely pure and never simple.

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Patrick Parker's Progress
Patrick Parker, golden child of bomb-devastated Coventry, adored and encouraged by his mother, fulfils his dream destiny to be a bridge-builder as great as Brunel. Audrey Wapshott, born at the same time, feels her destiny is to become the wife of handsome, brilliant Patrick. But Patrick has other plans and Audrey, miserable and abandoned, is left to follow her own journey to self-fulfilment beginning in Paris, and sinfulness in the arms of a much older man. When their paths cross years later, wicked Audrey plots a grand and satisfying retribution..

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Yesterday's Houses
When Seventeen-year-old Marianne Flowers is invited to a party, she has no idea that what she experiences there will change her life. Not to mention meeting a boy who introduces her to fine wine, sophisticated conversation and an apparently liberated future. But when marriage to Charles turns out to be far from liberating, Marianne finds her escape in literature, and realises there is a whole bright world unfolding before her. How will this new, independently minded Marianne find her place?

ISBN 978-0-571-22424-1        >>more

Amenable Women
Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her dashing and infuriating husband, Edward, dies in a bizarre ballooning accident. Ever pragmatic, Flora seizes upo her new freedom and decides to finish Edward's history of Hurcott Ducis, the village where they've spent their married life. A reference to Anna of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife, unkindly called the 'Flanders Mare', captures Flora's attention and later her affection as she sets about her own research in the hope of elevating Anna's place in history.

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The Lovers of Pound Hill
Is something of an English countryside romp, with serious undertones – hinging on an ancient, naked  figure carved into a Hill, with a rather enormous sense of his masculinity – and the archaeological mystery that surrounds him.  The figure sits above the south westerly village of Lufferton Boney and makes the villagers uneasy – until the startlingly original Molly Bonner – all of thirty years old and known as Miss Bonner the Archaeologist’s granddaughter - arrives to take charge of investigations.

Book release date: 5 May 2011