Helen Cooper

Pumpkin Soup.

A misfit mouse convinces a cat not to eat him in exchange for telling a story about a princess who goes on an adventure with her magical cat companion.

One year ago, Leah's feisty twenty-one-year-old niece, Amy, mysteriously drowned near her family-owned luxury resort on the shores of Lake Garda. Now, Leah is returning to Italy for the first time since Amy's death. But what she finds upon her arrival shocks her: her sister, brother-in-law, and surviving niece, Olivia, seem to have erased all memories of Amy, and insist her death was an accidental drowning, despite murky circumstances. Meanwhile,...

Lucy finds herself in exactly that situation when a colleague starts showing her pictures of her honeymoon in the Maldives. But in one of the photos, Lucy spots her best friend's husband, apparently on a luxurious holiday with another woman. The discovery is devastating to Lucy. She and her own husband do everything with their friends - the four of them trust each other implicitly. Determined to carry on as normal until she has more proof, Lucy's...

With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her own complex feelings.