Following the death of his wife, Ryan Petersen, a professor of European Literature at a New England University, is offered a year's exchange lectureship with London University. Accompanied by his matriarchal mother Hannah, who is hell-bent on finding him a new and more suitable wife, and his difficult young son, Joel, he arrives in swinging sixties London. But in exchanging his native land for England the reserved, cynical, woman-wary Ryan has one even more compelling reason for crossing the pond - to find the woman with whom he had a passionate wartime love affair over twenty years...

The year is nineteen sixty-five. After twenty years of marriage Olivia, a forty-five year old wife and mother, discovers that her husband, Giles, has fallen in love with a young actress half his age. Already feeling the first stirrings of discontent as the conventional and dutiful wife of her far from faithful husband, and conscious that the Swinging Sixties is rapidly passing her by, a humiliated and angry Olivia leaves the family home, moves from Hampshire to Devonshire, discards her twin-set and pearls image, resumes her earlier career as an artist, acquires her own occasional lover and...

A Year Out of Time is the story of one twelve year old girl from a "nice" middle-class background and a "nice" private school (where her mother hoped she might learn to be a lady) who, in the Autumn of 1940, finds herself pitched into the totally foreign environment of a small Worcestershire hamlet. For the space of one year her life revolves around the village school and its manic headmaster; the friends she makes, notably Georgie Little the "bad influence"; the twee but useful fellow evacuees, Mavis and Mickey Harper, whose possession of an old pigsty proves the springboard to some...

Matthew's Daughter is the second book of a Cornish Saga that began with Francis Lindsey's story 'And All Shall Be Well'. Now we follow Caroline Penrose after her return from the war to Trewlyns, her father's flower farm in Cornwall, where she hopes to find the peace and quiet to rebuild her life after the death of her Polish airman lover. But shortly after her arrival home she becomes aware of an atmosphere of secrecy and intrigue between her father Matthew, Grace Brendon his housekeeper, and Caroline's best friend Jennie, daughter of the rector Paul Tremaine. Confronting what she sees as a...

Growing up is hard to do. Even at twenty two... Landscape photographer Cassandra Chisholm is permanently hard up. She has an absent father in Paris and a not very satisfactory lover in Cornwall. When she agrees to take publicity photos for middle-aged author Michael Niven, the process of growing up begins to accelerate at an alarming rate. Unrequited love, unwanted revelations about her past, and the frightening prospect of leaving her Cornish home has Cassie arriving at her own personal Turning Point. Aided by her thespian friend Jono, she begins work at a London Arts Centre, until a series...

Take one ex-professional soldier with one ex-wife, one delinquent teenage son, one cantankerous old manservant and one beautiful but neglected country house. Add one strong-minded ex-PA, who has just lost both her job and her lover; toss in one hippy gardener with a colourful past, and one very large hairy dog with few social graces. Deposit all on a gale-swept Cornish coast in mid-winter; stir vigorously, then stand well back and see what human chemistry can do to your heart...

Most moms in their thirties have no business hanging out in nightclubs three to four nights a week, but Eds not like most moms.
Following the untimely tragedies of several family members, 38-year old Edwina, or "Ed" as shes known at the club, badly needs a change and gives up her secure, albeit boring job as a train operator to go back to school.
Her family is against her choice to work as a security guard at one of San Franciscos oldest, most infamous nightclubs, but its the one job that works with her schedule and pays her rent.
In this first book of a series based on Eds different career...