When city-girl Amber arrives to spend the summer in the village of Fiddlesticks, the only stars she recognises are the ones she reads about in her glossy celeb magazines. So she is stunned to find herself surrounded by a collection of nice bit eccentric neighbours who organise their entire lives ...
Hunting for inspiration in her attic, Mitzi Blessing discovers her grandmother's old cookery book. She found it to be chockful of seemingly old-fashioned recipes with quaint and enchanting names such as "Mischief Night Cake," "Powers of Persuasion Pudding" and "Pumpkin Passions" thus finds hersel...
With a father bankrupted by gambling, Jemima is determined to build a new, horse-free life in the Berkshire village of Milton St John; however, she soon discovers that not only do her new neighbours live, breathe and dream racing, but also that they are all determined to make her do the same.
When Nell Bradley discovers a set of dilapidated gallopers - an antique roundabout with carved horses - for sale, she is delighted. She and her brothers, Danny and Sam, run a traditional fair which, so far, has afforded them a good living. But times are changing, and Danny and Sam are keen to exp...
When Posy planned her wedding, she assumed that she would be at the altar, not skulking in the last pew wishing premature death on the bride. Lola planned her happily-ever-after for twenty-eight years. When a sudden death makes her homeless and jobless, she must leave the fancy biscuit trade with...
Breathlessly cold and gloomily dark, but none the less Christmas Eve at last. Thank goodness. Much as she loved running Francesca’s Fabulous Frocks, Frankie couldn’t wait to go home and relax and see her family and do all the traditional Christmas stuff and be fussed over ...
Onyx, the exotic dancer, had been to uni? Goodness, wasn’t that almost exactly like Belle de Jour or something? Hadn’t she been a high-class call girl by night and some massively well-qualified and respected scientist by day? Was Onyx the world’s leading expert on particle physics or nucleonics o...
‘I can’t believe that it’s officially autumn. It must be even hotter today than it was in July.’ Lazily, she raised the glass in salute. ‘God bless global warming and all the little holes in the ozone layer.’ ‘The end of September’s always the best time for a heatwave,’ Jasmine agreed. ‘Most of t...
Everyone in the village hall was laughing. Everything was twinkling and sparkling. The colours were dazzling. And yes, she had to admit, she’d thoroughly enjoyed losing herself in the Bollywood dancing. Because she really needed to lose herself tonight. She adjusted the turquoise and lilac dupatt...