In 2012, Elena Ferrante?s My Brilliant Friend introduced readers to the unforgettable Elena and Lila, whose lifelong friendship provides the backbone for the Neapolitan Novels. The Story of a New Name is the second book in this series. With these books, which the New Yorker?s James Wood described as ?large, captivating, amiably peopled...a beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal,? Ferrante proves herself to be one of Italy?s most accomplished...

When a beautiful blonde girl is found half-drowned on a beach, she has no memory of who she is or what horrors have left her there. But an article about her in a Brighton newspaper rings alarm bells for beautician Dale, who shows the police photographs of Lotte Wainright.

Best friend. Soul mate. Confidante. Backstabber. Amy thought she knew who Melissa was - then again, Amy also thought she was on the verge of the wedding of her dreams to her long-distance fiance. When her career suddenly begins to unravel, Amy pays a surprise trip home to London. Her boyfriend Jack is out, but it looks like another woman has been making herself at home. And that other woman is Melissa. Amy has lost her job, her fiance, her best friend...

Good friends are there through thick and thin - or are they? Laura Fanning, Nicola Peters and Helen Jackson's perfect lives aren't all they seem and when times get tough, you find out who your friends really are.

Beth Powell and Susan Wright grew up together and were best friends. But fate intervened and separated them. 29 years later they meet again. Susan is a down-and-out who has shot two people in cold blood, and Beth is the lawyer allocated to defend her.

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort - a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny', and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything...

Meeting up with Roz Vallender has devastating consequences for Camilla. Thankfully Loulou Marks comes to the rescue, persuading her that all is not lost. Loulou is great at giving other people advice, and when Camilla starts taking it she discovers that life in the fast lane is a lot more fun than being a cheated-on housewife.

It's not always easy living in a close-knit community where everyone knows everyone else's business. Growing up in a quiet West Country village, butcher's daughter Rebecca Peterson and her best friend Cindy Mason are keen to expand their horizons and see more of the world. On leaving school, Rebecca heads off to university in Cardiff, while Cindy gets a job at the new local supermarket - but dreams of becoming a model or actress. The two friends promise...

Alice's life has become a bit boring lately. Her friends are busy getting married and having babies, but she's not ready for those changes in her own life - not even sure she still loves her boyfriend. Then she meets Gretchen. A brand new, fun and unencumbered friend. Gretchen knows how to have a good time and she also has a totally gorgeous brother. Before she knows it, Alice has been swept up into her new best friend's world. But Gretchen has a...

As the needles clack, and the garments grow, the conversation moves on from patterns and yarn to life, love and everything. The women in the Friday Night Knitting Club are of different ages, but they are drawn together by threads of affection that prove as durable as the sweaters they knit.