A novel which explores the darker side of family life. When two English families travel to Portugal on holiday together, unexpected tensions and conflicts arise. As events move towards tragedy, no one sees who is to be the real victim. By the author of "Visits to My Sister" and "Keeping Secrets".
I have Polish friends whose parents share a story similar to the family in this novel and I learned a great deal about not only life as a post war Pole in Britain, but also about the sufferings and repeated disappointments of the Polish people during the second world war. It's only with this kno...
I enjoyed Letters from Prague. It details a trip and a single mother makes with her daughter to find her first love from Czechoslovakia (not her daughters father). On the way they stay with family in Brussels, and then travel on to Berlin and finish the trip in Prague.I like the historical and ...
Stephen had been too busy and too often away to get up there and unblock it, but someone was going to have to. Perhaps she and Jon could do it on Sunday. She lay, her head uncomfortably heavy on the pillow, still half-asleep, picturing Jon’s tall figure at the top of the ladder, herself at the bo...
Claire, her head on Robert’s chest, lay listening to the lazy creak of the swing-seat from the terrace below, and from below that the enquiring voices of hens, scratching through the dry grass under the lemon trees. She could hear from the landing the sound of Guida, who must have let herself in,...