The highly acclaimed, international bestselling novel following the lives of three generations of women.

Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'.

A charming and funny tale of match-making misadventures by an author whose fans include Philip Larkin, Alexander McCall Smith and Jilly Cooper.

Presents the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief point of contact is that they work in the same office and they suffer the same problem - loneliness.

*'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life' Hermione Lee, Observer

A classic tale of fantasy and self-delusion from one of the most acclaimed British novelists of the twentieth century