When a couple s home life begins to overlap with the life they lead on vacation, they run into problems. Beth doesn t know it, but the forgiven drunken fling Ned had at home was with the female half of one of the couples they meet in the Caribbean every year."

Sorrel is about to go off on her Gap Year. She wants a home to come home to. Ilex, her brother, is trying to upgrade his flat and marry his smart girlfriend Manda. He'd like some immediate equity. Clover, the elder sister, has plans that involve a bijou second home in France. And she wants it "now. "If only their parents would be "sensible. "If only they would sell their large, rather grand but somewhat dilapidated home and hand over their inheritance. But parents aren't always as sensible as their children. They are planning on blowing the lot.

A social comedy by the author of Just for the Summer. The illegal activities of unemployed teenagers on a London suburban council estate are giving cause for concern. There is also illegal activity among the residents of the desirable street nearby - but these crimes are more socially-acceptable.

After 20 years of marriage, Nina has gotten rid of serial-philanderer Joe and is happy coping alone with their two daughters. But then some disturbing elements begin to appear in her new, carefree lifeincluding the flasher on the common and Joe's revelation that his girlfriend wants a baby."

Wife, mother, and journalist Jess finds her usually cheery muddle of family life turned upside down when her husband Matt is unexpectedly made redundant. For instead of looking upon it as the disaster it is, he sees it as the perfect opportunity to indulge in some kind of second adolescence.

Sara's mother told her that she shouldn t marry Conrad, that the 25-year age gap between them would be their downfall. Conrad, a famous painter, has decided that it would be good to die before he gets seriously old, and so spends his time sorting out his chaotic life. Meanwhile Sarawhen not teaching art at a local collegefinds that she has plenty of male company in the form of other people s husbands, all of whom are just good friends to her. But there s one man that she somehow never gets around to mentioning to Conrad, and suddenly her little secret begins to impact the rest of her life."

But then Alex came along...the safer, more restful option, and thanks to her over-controlling mother she opted for him instead. Alex has left her to live in New York with a younger, blonder woman. It's crisis time - and she makes two decisions: First - she will take lessons in self-defence.Second - she will try and find Patrick again.