Mavis Cheek je autorkou, ktorej diela sa s ostrou inteligenciou a zmyslom pre absurditu života ponárajú do zložitosti ľudskej existencie. Jej písanie často skúma témy spoločenských konvencií, osobnej identity a hľadania zmyslu v často chaotickom svete. S jedinečným štýlom, ktorý je prenikavý aj empatický, Cheek dokáže zachytiť vnútorný život svojich postáv a výzvy, ktorým čelia, pomocou jazyka, ktorý je vtipný aj dojemný. Jej práca rezonuje s čitateľmi vďaka jej nekompromisnému pohľadu na ľudskú povahu a jej talentu vytvárať nezabudnuteľné príbehy.
Joan's answer to life after divorce is happy seclusion. She rejects the outside world and embarks on a contented existence of isolated self- indulgence. But when she meets the roguish, desirable actor Finbar Flynn, the walls of her citadel begin to crack.
When city girl Molly Bonner arrives in the village of Lufferton Boney, she creates quite a stir. With her non-country-style boots, determined manner and alluring looks, she sets off a wave of intrigue that ripples through the lives of everyone there, from Julie the barmaid at the Holly Bush to antiques dealer Dryden Fellows and Montmorency the cat.
Nina Porter seems to have it all: husband, home, family and security. But her life turns upside down when a marital row over truthfulness sets her thinking. And when a glamorous few days of research in Venice are suddenly on offer, there seems no reason for Nina to refuse them.
Intrigantni roman britanske spisateljice problematizira temu ženske nevjere. Glavna junakinja je Dilys Holmes, žena pedesetih godina, koja s Francisom, uglednim londonskim odvjetnikom, već trideset godina živi u stabilnom braku - sve dok ne susretne Mathewa. Od tog trenutka njen život pretvara se u strahovit kaos, a kao paravan za ljubavne sastanke izmišljat će odlaske svojoj staroj ujni Lizi. Međutim, jednog dana ona će je stvarno i posjetiti, ne sluteći kakve će sve mračne obiteljske tajne tom prilikom isplivati te da će u konačnici njen život poprimiti obrise pravog ljubavnog trilera... Ovaj dojmljiv roman, pisan jasnim i jezgrovitim stilom, vrlo živopisno i uvjerljivo portretira komleksnost unutarnjeg svijeta žene dezorijentirane ljubavlju prema dvojici muškaraca.
Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her husband dies in a bizarre ballooning accident. Seizing upon her new found freedom, she decides to finish the history of their village that Edward had begun . A reference to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII s fourth wife who he rejected for being ugly, captures Flora s imagination and she begins to delve deeper into the life of this neglected historical figure. Meanwhile, in the Louvre, Holbein s portrait of Anne of Cleves senses the tug of a connection and she begins to tell the real story of the injustices she suffered and just how she survived her marriage...
Angela Fytton - wonderwife, supermother, bedroom vamp and business partner - has been unceremoniously dumped. Like many a good wife before her she has been swapped by her husband for a younger model. Now, divorced but determined, she rediscovers the iron in her soul and decides to fight. She moves to the country leaving her entirely selfish teenage children with their father and his sweet new bride, and she waits. One day, she knows, her husband will return. Meanwhile she yields herself up to the notion that country life is pure and good and that country people are next to angels - and finds this is very far from the truth . . .
Sixteen-year-old Marianne's life changes when she attends a party at a genteel house, where she meets a boy who introduces her to red wine and a sense of freedom. The story follows her journey to independence through seven houses, three men, and numerous disappointments.
Celia, housewife, mother and wonderful cook, is celebrating her fortieth birthday. But the house of cards collapses around her, as friends and a sister turn edgy and fickle, a long-time admirer turns into a crude jester, and Celia spies her husband embracing a ghastly woman in a 'Come Dancing' frock.
Patrick Parker, golden child of bomb-devastated Coventry, adored and encouraged by his mother, fulfils his dream destiny to be a bridge builder as great as Brunel. But Patrick has other plans and Audrey, miserable and abandoned, is left to follow her own journey to self-fulfilment beginning in Paris, and sinfulness, in the arms of a much older man.
Dilys' Leben verändert sich abrupt, als sie von einer zufriedenen Ehefrau zur leidenschaftlichen Geliebten eines anderen Mannes wird. Um ihren Ehemann zu beruhigen, muss sie ständig neue Ausflüchte finden. Ihre Tante Eliza könnte ihr dabei als perfektes Alibi dienen.
