Heidi and Jason aren't like other couples. Six years ago, Heidi's daughter was murdered. A year later, Jason's son Barney disappeared. Their shared loss brought them together. By chance, Heidi meets a boy she's certain is her husband's long-missing son - but Jason is equally convinced it's not him. Is Heidi mad? Or is Jason hiding something? And can their fragile marriage survive Heidi's search for the truth ... ?.

When Matthew's beloved wife Molly died, there seemed to be nothing anyone could do to console him. At the age of 16, Mark longed to earn his father's respect by assisting with the family business. Tilly Povey, watching the boy's lonely existence, resolved to help them both.

Dave Lewis is a man with a history. Haunted by his brother's death, he's built a bitter life that seems to be going nowhere. Now, he's trying to convince himself the past is the past and that he is determined to move on. But is that going to be possible?

From the international bestselling author of The Phone Box at the Edge of the World: a powerful, moving novel of grief, hope, friendship and love based around a real archive on an island in Japan, where people travel to record their heartbeats. To find what you have lost, you must listen to your heart . . . On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library of heartbeats, a place where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world...

Nisha has crossed oceans to give her child a future. By day she cares for Petra's daughter; at night she mothers her own little girl by the light of a phone. Nisha's lover, Yiannis, is a poacher, hunting the tiny songbirds on their way to Africa each winter. His dreams of a new life, and of marrying Nisha, are shattered when she vanishes. No one cares about the disappearance of a domestic worker, except Petra and Yiannis. As they set out to search...

In the idyllic small town of Tucker, Vermont, life flows at a rhythmic pace for 39-nine-year-old pediatrician Paige Pfieffer. But when Mara O'Neill, Paige's best friend and medical partner, inexplicably commits suicide, Paige's comfortable world is shattered.

Life is tough on the cobbled courtyards of Bermuda Village, boys are destined for the pit and girls for the mill. Despite this, clever, feisty Maryann is happy there until her mother dies. Maryann is left coping with everything, exhausted and lonely. But then Maryann is offered a lifeline; a position as nanny to the daughter of the mill owner, Wesley Marshall. Though the house is filled with secrets and heartaches, there is kindness too, and to Maryann's...

A story of seafaring men and the women who love them, by the author of 'The Red Shawl'. Captain David Fernley has made and lost a fortune in the whaling trade, fishing the frozen Arctic wastes from the Yorkshire port of Whitby. Then his erring wife and best friend die in an accident at sea.