When newly orphaned Cassandra Dashwood arrives as governess to little Sophy, the scene seems set for the archetypal romance...

Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private absorptions - Frances with her...

The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his...

An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena and an artist's servant girl in seventeenth-century...

'"You know,'"Midge began, and paused. She was rather taken aback, and could not at once think of anything to say. "Perhaps...

When Rainclouds Gather: Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of...

Life is not quite a fairytale for poor Viola. Left penniless, the young widow is forced to live with her late husband s family in...

In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair.

Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife...

From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was...

Since childhood, Claude Wheeler has believed that ‘something splendid’ would restore the faith he had lost in modern life and the...

It is 1939, the last summer before the outbreak of war. French actress Angele Maury abandons a group of friends travelling...

Edith Wharton (1862-1937), the grande dame of American literature, was also a subtle and spirited critic of its...

Mere Marie-Helene once turned her back on life, sealing up her heart in order to devote herself to God. Now the formidable Mother...

Two sisters: Madeleine and Dinah. One husband: Rickie Masters. For many years now, Dinah, exotic and sensual, has conducted a...

Mrs Lippincote's house, with its mahogany furniture and yellowing photographs, stands as a reminder of all the certainties that...

A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentieth century's finest...

A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first...

Under his railway arch in Loughborough Junction, South London, Robert Sutton is taking leave of a lifetime of hard work. His...

Frank Wentworth, Perpetual Curate of St Roque’s, has basked in the popularity of Carlingford, beloved in the gracious homes of...

Dedmayne Rectory is quietly decaying, its striped chintz and darkened rooms are a bastion of outmoded Victorian values. Here Mary...

As the effects of the war raging in Europe begins to be felt at home in London, Monica Dickens decides to do her bit and to...

From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where...

From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where...

It is wartime in Barsetshire, and so much has changed. Belier's Priory is now a hospital for wounded soldiers, and Sir Harry and...

It is 1945. When peace breaks out at last, familiar wartime routines are interrupted, and the residents of Barsetshire seem as...

It is summer 1939 and the social event of the year is about to take place: Rose Birkett, a flighty beauty with a penchant for...

Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter...

The estate is called Windcote, 'its very name a masquerade', and its master, the odious Raoul Meridian, has invited a group of...

The mesmerising new thriller, set in the hothouse world of a ballet school, from the bestselling and award-winning writer Megan...

Growing up after the war in Westmere, an English seaside town, Kitty has been sheltered by her parents, but meeting Danny changes...