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Eleanor and Henry Nightingale. Paula and Alan Walker. Two very different couples, brought together by the marriage of their respective children, Nicola and Matthew. Elegant and successful, Eleanor has turned a blind eye to her husband Henry's infidelities for years, but might finally be running out of patience. Paula and Alan appear happy, but quiet grief for their lost daughter may be pushing them slowly apart. Meanwhile, Nicola and Matthew's marriage is facing its own crisis point. An Italian holiday for all four in-laws, intended to bring them closer together, creates both bonds and rifts. With three unions in turmoil, will any survive?
What would you do if you won the lottery? Angela and Tom leave their roots and move to a designer home overlooking Morecambe Bay. Despite the money, Angela is discontented, Tom has changed into a businessman with grandiose plans, and their daughter Melanie is aimless. A visit to Angela’s sister Moira brings to a head their disparate relationships. Tom’s business plans unravel bringing unexpected money worries, and Angela is faced with revealing that she has been sending money regularly to Cheryl who wrote a begging-letter after the win. Should she trust her, for is Cheryl all she seems?
The pressures of the recession have left the Fletchers' business in trouble and the family in a similar state of disarray. The lack of a bond with her daughter, Amy, has left Christine Fletcher feeling guilty about the amount of time she spends instead with her artistic daughter-in-law, Monique. But Christine's husband and daughter don't believe Monique to be as innocent and uncomplicated as she seems. A family Christmas reveals surprises, and when Monique disappears to her cottage in France and Amy's new relationship runs into trouble, Christine is forced to act to save both her family and the business.
Set in Preston and the Forest of Bowland, this is a moving contemporary saga about family relationships. Previous titles by Patricia Fawcett include A Family Weekend and Set to Music.
Sisters Frances, Maggie, and Diane, and their widowed father Harvey, try to sort out their lives and relationships.
After meeting in the hospital where their babies are undergoing open-heart surgery, Becky and Adele resolve to remain friends whatever happens. The two women are from different backgrounds but they have had to face up to the same anxieties and it brings them together. Following the operation and the different way she and her husband face up to the situation brings Adele's marriage to Rory to crisis point and she turns to Becky. However, as their friendship deepens, Adele discovers something of the past and how the two families have been linked previously. Will their friendship survive or is it too dark a secret to share?
Returning to her roots in Devon, Francesca discovers her childhood home is for sale. She buys it, but is moving back a mistake, or will living there again help her to come to terms with something that has haunted her for years?
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A loveless marriage. An impossible dream. A dangerous sister. In this Between the Wars romance, Vanessa escapes a life of drudgery and family turmoil in a northern mill town, moving to London courtesy of Florence, a Medium who offers Vanessa an opportunity to improve her life. Armed with a new identity, Vanessa tries to forget the past but her marriage to a good but dull man cannot quench her secret longing for William, the love of her life, the man she met fleetingly many years ago. Meeting him again unexpectedly leads to a chain of events that send her fortunes spiralling downwards and the ugly past rears its head. Can Vanessa untangle the complications and look forward to her happy ever after?
Secrets and unexpected attractions intervene in the wedding of Emily and Simon.