Lisa Jewell

East Yorkshire. Single mum Alice Lake finds a man on the beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, no idea what he is doing there. Against her better judgement she invites him in to her home. Surrey. Twenty-one-year-old Lily Drew has only been married for three weeks. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. Then the police tell her that her husband never existed....

Then: Ellie Mack was many things. She was 15. She was the youngest of three. She was her mother's golden girl. She was heading towards a perfect post-exams summer holiday, with her whole life ahead of her. And then, she was gone. Now: Laurel Mack is living in the past. It's been 10 years since Ellie disappeared, and Laurel's never given up hope of finding her daughter. But now, she no longer has a choice in the matter. It's time to let go. And then...

It's late at night and Kim is waiting. Her daughter, Tallulah, is out on a date, and hasn't returned. Desperate to find out where she might be, Kim contacts her friends, and discovers that Tallulah was last seen heading to a party at a house in the woods. The locals call it Dark Place. Two years on, the mystery of Tallulah's disappearance remains unsolved. But could a note discovered in the woods lead to the truth about what happened that night?

London, 2011. In the early hours of a summer morning, a young woman is killed by a bus. A tragic accident? Or suicide? A year later, her devastated husband, Adrian Wolfe, is determined to find out. Adrian and Maya had only recently married, and he'd always believed they were happy together. His children from his two previous marriages loved her. And Maya loved them. She had a job she enjoyed, she had plenty of friends, and she and Adrian were trying...

Brothers Tony, Sean and Ned had the perfect upbringing. They adore their parents and actually look forward to coming home for Sunday lunch. But now they're grown up, real life is starting to get in the way.

Meet the residents of 31 Almanac Road in a romantic and funny novel that takes you up the garden path, through the front door and into the most intimate parts of other peoples' lives. Ralph's Party is Lisa Jewell's first novel.

Libby Jones, twenty-five and living on a shoestring budget, is shocked to discover that she has inherited an eight-bedroom property in the heart of Chelsea. But the house is dilapidated and has a sinister past - one in which she and her birth family are tangled. For this is also the day that Libby discovers she has a brother and a sister. That her birth parents were poor, selling their furniture and sleeping on mattresses inside their palatial home....

YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WATCHING You?re back home after four years working abroad, new husband in tow. You?re keen to find a place of your own. But for now you?re crashing in your big brother?s spare room. That?s when you meet the man next door. He?s the head teacher at the local school. Twice your age. Extraordinarily attractive. You find yourself watching him. All the time. But you never dreamed that your innocent crush might become a deadly obsession....

London, 1920. Arlette works in Liberty by day, and by night is caughty up in a glamorous whirl of parties, clubs, cocktails and jazz. But when tragedy strikes she flees the city, never to return. Over half a century later, in the grungy mid-'90s, her graddaughter Betty arrives in London. She can't wait to begin her new life. But before she can do so, she must find the mysterious woman named in her grandmother's will. What she doesn't know is that...

In a hospice in Bury St Edmunds, a man called Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day; she holds his hand and listens to the story of his life, to his regrets and to his secrets. And he tells her about the children he has never met, conceived with women he never even touched.