Unmarried at 51, Myra Lipinsky has endured the isolation of her middle life by immersing herself in her home nursing career. Now Chip Reardon is assigned to be her new patient. He is an old school friend who, with an incurable illness, has returned home to New England to spend his remaining days.

Jean le Viste, a newly wealthy member of the French court, commissions the tapestries to hang in his chateau. Nicolas, his chosen designer, meets le Viste's wife Genevieve and his daughter Claude, both of whom take a keen interest in the tapestries. This novel is written by the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels .

Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine, her only consolation is food. That and a passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben. Her life needs to change and soon. But can Jemima reinvent herself?

Have you ever opened a letter that completely changed your life?

Presents the story of a girl who needs to slow down, to find herself, to fall in love, and discover what an iron is for... Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She has no home life, and cares about getting a partnership. She thrives on the pressure and adrenalin. Until one day... she makes a mistake, so huge, that it'll wreck her career.

Maggie Walsh has always done everything by the book - right up until the day she walks out of her marriage. Follow her on a journey of discovery, from suburbia to a suntan, complete with martinis and heartache, as she discovers what she really wants in life.