Tells the story of a young married woman who lies down on a chaise-longue and wakes to find herself imprisoned in the body of her alter ego ninety years before.

The Countess of Lochlule marries Sir Hector, owner of the estate next to 'Keepsfield', the palatial Scottish mansion where she lives. But one day she meets someone on a park bench in Edinburgh. This novel is about dreams and the hard world of money and position and their relations to one another.

Set sixty years ago at the time of the fall of Tobruk in 1942, one of the low points of the war.

Describes the life of a London architect from the 1890s to the early 1930s. This novel is about a 'very decent, simple, sweet-minded creature' who realises that his marriage has been a mistake yet makes the best of things: because he has dignity, commonsense and kindness, and is 'very much in love with his profession'.

Hattie is 'a stranger by birth' and not really at home anywhere, least of all among her family. Now, while in Ibiza with the carefree, younger man who has just become her husband, the meaning of her past is becoming clear, its hidden pattern emerging from gray English shadows into the yellow Mediterranean sun.

Set in the year 1948, this novel is about the life of two families during the inter-war years. Instead of seeing William at odds with adults, we are shown the matriarchs around whom their families spin; but whether they direct their children gently or forcefully, in the end they have to accept them as they are.