Maeve Haran

With her marriage falling apart and her longed-for holiday cancelled, Georgina Greenhills gets an unexpected offer: a holiday in the small seaside town nestling in the beautiful South Downs where she grew up.

Each month best friends Claudia, Sal, Ella and Laura meet for drinks, celebrating 45 years of friendship....

Catherine Hope can control her class of 30 noisy school children, but trying to keep her 17 year old daughter on track for A Levels, that's a different matter....

Ann More, fiery and spirited daughter of the Mores of Loseley House, comes to London destined for a life at the court of Queen Elizabeth. And there she encounters John Donne....

Friends and lovers, old and new, come together and fall apart in deepest France culminating in a very special château wedding....

Lifelong friends Claudia, Ella, Laura and Sal celebrated 60 as the new 40, determined not to let age change things. But now they are looking at the future and wondering how to make growing old more fun....

Sixteen-year-old Frances Stuart arrives at the Restoration court to find her innocence and beauty are highly prized commodities, envied by the women and desired by the men.....

Stella Ainsworth has settled for suburban peace with a pedantic husband, a dissatisfied daughter and a clutch of beloved grandchildren - who all take her presence in their lives for granted....

Four old university friends, Dora, Penny, Nell and Moira, reunite to relive that first hippy-dippy trip together to a beautiful, unspoilt, romantic Greek island looking for sun, sand and sea....

Liz Ward believed that it was possible to have it all. A glittering career, a successful marriage and a happy family....

In the dead of night, in the pouring rain, a drunk driver smashes his car into a young man....

Friends and lovers, old and new, come together and fall apart in deepest France culminating in a very special château wedding....