Rosie Thomas

On the eve of 1941 with World War II engulfing the globe, newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Britain to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India, but when he leaves her in the exotic lakeside of Srinigar to take on a complicated mission elsewhere, she discovers a new world.

Rosie Thomas, "a master storyteller" (Cosmopolitan) has been enrapturing readers, earning awards, and garnering critical praise for more than three decades. Here, she offers a breathtaking look at marriage and relationships, with 'the five families' †" the pleasantly hospitable Frosts, the brash and sexy Cleggs, flirtatious Jimmy Rose and aloof Star, maternal Vicky and reliable Gordon Ransome, Michael Wickham and his perfect wife Marcelle....

Buried in the rubble after a bomb explodes in a department store, Annie is injured and half dead with fear. Then a man trapped beside her reaches out with a quiet voice and soothing hand. The tragedy has brought them together and they begin a struggle for survival.

Julie and Mattie, best friends who run away from their parents in 1950's London, achieve varying degrees of success in their careers during the next thirty years, but both are troubled by a vague sense of unhappiness.

In late 19th century London, artist's model Eliza puts her heart, and her life, on the line when she falls into the company of an enigmatic showman called Devil; Carlo Bonomi, an ill-tempered dwarf with a penchant for magic and illusion; and the even more mysterious Jasper Button.

"Nancy Wix, daughter of stage impresarios Eliza and Devil, is a born performer. But she is set apart, even from her unusual family, by the visions she has seen since she was a child. When a gifted medium reveals a way for Nancy to harness her troubling powers to keep the Wix's struggling theatre afloat, she grasps the opportunity with a desperate intensity. This is the age of spiritualism, and Nancy will see her star rise in a time when families decimated...