The curiously named Isamay, a would-be academic, is trying to write a coherent thesis about grandmothers in history from Sarah Bernhardt and George Sand to the matriarchal Queen Victoria and other influential grannies while constantly ambushed by the secrets her own family has been keeping.

Rose is looking forward to welcoming home her loving husband, Alfie, at the end of the First World War. Traumatised by his experiences on the battlefield, however, Alfie is a shadow of his former self. Pushed away by him, Rose's head is soon turned by another man, and she struggles with temptation... Many years later, Jess returns from her final tour of Afghanistan. Haunted by nightmares from her time at the front, her longed-for homecoming is a disaster,...

Staring out into the dark on the rattling night train to Marrakech, French student Vicky Baudin is running from a failed relationship and in search of the great designer Yves St Laurent. But she is also looking for the truth about the mysterious grandmother who gave her father up for adoption decades before. Clemence Petier lives in a kasbah high in the Atlas Mountains, where she guards her secrets closely. Cautious about the arrival of an unknown...

Thirty-eight year old Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything known and dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra's life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family. Inheriting a book of dark and intriguing...

There's an old Cornish saying: "Save a stranger from the sea, he'll turn your enemy..." When her reclusive grandmother Jaunty becomes too frail to live alone, Gabriella Blythe moves into the remote waterside cabin on Frenchman's Creek which has been her grandmother's home for decades. Once a celebrated artist, Jaunty's days are coming to a close but she is still haunted by events in her past, particularly the sinking of a ship during the war. Everything...

A heartrending saga of a sister separated from her baby brother by tragedy and prejudice, who will brave the Blitz to bring him to safety.

In 1960s Marrakech, a young girl, travels to meet her estranged grandmother. Vicky Baudin steps on to the train through Morocco looking for the truth about the woman who gave her father up for adoption decades before. Clemence Petier lives in a kasbah on the edge of the Atlas Mountains, her background shrouded in mystery. But the past holds secrets that threaten them both. A face from Clemence's childhood threatens to expose everything she has built...