On a Morris Dancing trip, Jack meets Non and is launched into a world of lovestruck subterfuge. At home wife Fay has a crush on a friend's son. Will their marriage survive the promise of new and exotic lovers?

Miriam had been freewheeling into a comfortable future, but after a bitter betrayal she's stuck between the dual spectres of maternal servitude and obligation to her octogenarian parents. A random encounter at the local arts centre presents her with job opportunity she would never have imagined in a million years. Mere weeks later, on a visit to her childhood home, she hears news that offers a chance to rewrite the past. Given the luxury of hindsight, making the right decisions about her professional and private lives should be a breeze... But can Miriam's instincts be trusted? There's only one way to find out, she must pinch her nose and jump right in.

When baby Gordon threatens their perfect childhood his elder siblings wish him gone. When he does disappear it blights their lives into middle age

Two middle-aged women, one handsome tv star, and three hormonal teenagers- all stuck in the middle of a heatwave and with nothing planned. Elizabeth was hoping for a week of idle chatter and cold white wine. But a week can be a flash in the pan or a lifetime, depending on how you look at it...

Fifth novel from Richard and Judy Award winner Jo Verity, author of Sweets from Morocco a “pitch perfect evocation of childhood and sibling relationships" Marcel Theroux A bomb explodes in central London and the shockwaves disrupt the lives of everyone in the vicinity. Australian ex-pat Gil is on a grey gap-year working in the hospital to which Vivien brings Irene for treatment; together they try to bring calm where terror reigns. Irene is thrilled with her new friends, they less so with her ongoing interest in their lives. Gil has a girlfriend, who lives in the same building with her two children, and a family back home. Thirty-something Vivien has a high-flying boyfriend and a time-consuming job which may be about to transfer to Germany. But they keep finding reasons to spend time together in the run up to Christmas. Marooned in Tooting by a sudden snowstorm, Vivien and Gil are forced to spend the holiday confronting secrets and surprises and facing up to...

When Anna Wren and her husband buy a rambling farmhouse with three other couples, the intention is to grow old with the support of tried and trusted friends.