Joanna Trollope

It's been twenty-five years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a vineyard and wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke, it's left to their three grown children in London to step in. Businessman Sebastian's wife, Anna, has never quite seen eye to eye with her mother-in-law. Katie, a successful solicitor in the City, is distracted by problems with her partner, Nic, and the secretive lives...

Rachel has always loved being at the centre of her large family. She has fiercely devoted herself to her three sons all their lives, and continues to do so even now they are all grown up. They are, of course, devoted to her also. But when Luke, her youngest, gets married, Rachel finds that control is slipping away.

For 20 years Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife had served God and the parish in a diversity of ways. When her husband failed to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreated into isolated bitterness, Anna suddenly rebelled and took a job at the local supermarket.

On Friday nights a group of six different and disparate women meet. They range in age from Jules, who is 22 and wants to be a DJ, to Eleanor, who is a retired professional and walks with a stick. When one of them meets a man the whole dynamic changes. The bonds that have been so closely forged are tested - and some will break.

Chrissie knew that Richie had loved her for all the 23 years they'd been together, loved their three daughters & their house in Highgate. Richie gave her everything, except the one thing that would have made her life perfect. She even had a sparkling ring - but it wasn't a wedding ring, & it did not bring with it the security of marriage.

Braving another emotional minefield, this is a novel by the author of The Choir, A Village Affair, The Rector's Wife and A Spanish Lover.

In the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral, crisis looms. The urbane and worldly Dean wants nothing so much as to restore and beautify his beloved Cathedral - even if it means sacrificing the choir school to pay for it.

This novel explores the myths, the realities and the difficulties of trying to deal simultaneously with present relationships, past relationships and, above all, with other people's children.

Joanna Trollope has shifted her focus to the heart of English farmland, where she portrays a family at a tragic crossroads. This book is about outsiders and insiders, about nomads and settlers, about living on the land, and living with yourself.

From the bestselling author of The Choir, The Rector's Wife and A Village Affair comes this novel of marriage, adultery and reconciliation.