Somewhere between a car accident and a divorce, Annie Applegate stopped believing in happy endings.Now, she just wants to disappear. And the tiny town of Promise fits the bill. With its winding streets and melting-pot of residents, it’s the perfect place for Annie to hide away and open the bookshop she always dreamed of owning.Until her new-found peace and quiet is disturbed by Lucas, a widower who rivals Annie as the most cynical person in town ...
‘A charming and delightful read!’ Pretty Little Book ReviewsOne summer can change everything…Mae has no time for men in her life! Local vet Alfie might be totally gorgeous but she’s far too busy looking after her young daughter and running her little bed & breakfast by the sea.Willow is in the middle of building her dream home with her husband, Ethan, when disaster strikes. And with every month that passes she secretly worries that her happy eve ...
The novel from the author of A SCENT OF LAVENDER and ONE SUMMER AT DEER'S LEAP follows the secrets and passions of the Sutton family as Britain tries to find its way following the end of World War 2.The war is over, but the battle for happiness has just begun …After six long years the Second World War is finally finished. Rationing may remain, but hopes and dreams are in good supply.At Rowangarth, deep in the Yorkshire countryside, there is more ...
A rousing historical adventure from the bestselling author of ‘Prince of the Clouds’.As a boy, Nino Manes used to dash through the morning streets of his island fishing village to reach the church square before the first explosion of the Alborada, the fireworks that rang out over the bay to announce the dawning of a feast day.Now, years later as an Italian prisoner of war in a Texan camp at the end of World War II, Nino receives a letter from hi ...
*Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club pick!*Shortlisted for the Hearst Big Book ‘Prima Page-Turners’ Award 2018‘A one-sitting kind of book. Fans of One Day by David Nicholls will love this.’ Stylist MagazineTwo people. One choice. What if?Every love story has a beginning…Lucy and Gabe meet in New York on a day that will change their lives – and the world – forever. As the city burns behind them, they kiss for the very first time.Over the next thirteen ...
Emma Compton swore she hadn’t seen her husband’s suicide coming.But, given the shocking revelations that followed Richard Compton’s death, no-one quite believed that Emma hadn’t known her marriage was based on lies.Least of all, Emma herself.Hounded by the press and public alike, Emma escapes to her home town, where she is forced to ask for help from the one person she’d hoped never to see again: her childhood friend, Riley.Because if Emma ever ...
Sweeping epic of adventure and enduring love, from the revolutionary upheaval in Russia to the chaos of post-War Berlin.Misha is an aristocratic young officer in the army when the Russian revolution sweeps away all his certainties. Tonya is a nurse from an impoverished family in St Petersburg. They should have been bitter enemies; and yet they fall passionately in love. It cannot last, and Misha must flee the country as Tonya faces arrest and po ...
'Is immediately on my «best books of 2017» list’ Rachel Burton, author of The Many Colours of Us‘A beautifully-drawn cast of characters blended with meticulous research, so evocative of the era, pull you into a heartwarming page turner’ Sue Wilsher, Author of When My Ship Comes InChange is in the air…It’s the summer of 1935 and holidaymakers are flocking to St Darlstone’s magnificent lido beside the sea!With little hope of finding a husband, no- ...
If only I had never opened that letter…and let the devil in Meredith Hathaway has spent the last seventeen years pretending to forget. Until she gets a letter and her world is shattered in an instant. She must finally confront the rise and fall of the Hathaway dynasty…and her own part in their devastating history.1946 Iowa. One woman is determined to change her fate. With unwavering ambition Lavinia Hathaway will stop at nothing to ensure that h ...
