The war has had a devastating effect on the Sweet Family with young Charlie Sweet, lost at sea, presumed dead and bombs falling on nearby Bristol.Still there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon in the form of Mary Sweet's upcoming wedding to her Canadian beau. But even that has failed to rouse their father from his grief. But in London a baby has been found in a bombed out house, sheltered in the arms of his dead mother. A child to make life worth living again...
'What an emotional, twisty, rollercoaster of a novel! It kept me guessing all the way through.' Alice Hunter, author of The Serial Killer's Wife Sometimes the past is best left buried Since the birth of baby Joe five weeks ago, Ali Baker has been struggling to cope. Starved of sleep and haunted by painful memories from the past, she's a million miles away from the polished, professional barrister she has worked so hard to become. Then her mother tragically and unexpectedly dies, leaving Ali a...
Emma adores living in Brighton, but she loves Matt more. When he suggests they buy the perfect farmhouse in the south of France, she reluctantly agrees, even though he continues commuting to London while she looks after their daughter and the builders. But France is not the idyll he promised, and when she discovers the true reason he spends half his time in London the foundations on which she's built her life start to crumble...
Behind the shiny facade of her seemingly idyllic life, Mattie Hart feels she is falling apart. After sixteen years of marriage, and a beautiful teenage daughter, Mattie discovers that her husband Jake is ensconced in yet another affair. It is only after Jake confesses his infidelity and leaves home that Mattie receives even more devastating news. News that will alter all their lives. Now, for the first time, Mattie and Jake are about to discover what love really means. How its astonishing power...
How to Be a Good Wife is a haunting and unforgettable literary thriller about the 'perfect marriage', by Emma Chapman.Marta has been married to Hector for longer than she can remember. She has always tried hard to be a good wife.But now Hector has come home with a secret. And Marta is beginning to imagine – or revisit – a terrifying truth . . .'The unnamed Scandinavian setting has all the familiar elements of contemporary northern lights noir . . . a ruthless examination of the many layers of ma...
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Intelligent, honest, and full of heart," My Heart is an intimate work of autobiographical fiction by one of ex-Yugoslavia's greatest writers about his family's experience as refugees from the Bosnian war—a timeless story of love, memory, and the resilience of the human spirit that "has all the qualities one might seek in a friend" (Etgar Keret, author of The Seven Goods Years). "Today, it seems, was the day I was meant to die." When a writer suffer...
From the moment she sees the stranger, Nell is filled with a sense of fear. Even after he leaves, and despite her mother's reassurances, Nell suspects that their lives are about to change. A short time later, Nell's mother disappears, leaving Nell to care for her seven brothers and sisters.