These short essays about food were first published in The Times and include titles such as 'Tray Food' and 'Sunday Supper' as well as 'For The Too Fat' and 'For The Too Thin'.

This is an emotionally-charged novel about a young Englishman whose French wife was murdered by the Gestapo at the beginning of the Second World War, leaving her child to be taken into hiding. After the war, Hilary Wainwright goes to France to look for his son.

In this sharp, unsentimental domestic comedy, the weather is something less than cheerful the day Dolly Thatcham marries the Hon Owen Bingham.