Penguin My Husband Next Door Alliott Catherine

A house in the south of France. A holiday of a lifetime. What could be nicer? What could possibly go wrong? • When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in a chateau in the south of France in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance. They exchange the confines of Clapham, the weight of the mortgage and anxieties over their future for a blissful break • But Flora didn't anticipate a mysterious guest and a whole heap of family baggage coming too • With James developing a schoolboy crush on a famous singer and Flora distracted by ghosts from her past, their dream holiday suddenly takes some very unexpected turns

Lose yourself in the twists and turns of love in the hilarious romantic comedy from the bestselling author of A Cornish Summer • Finding true love's a piece of cake - as long as you're looking for someone else's true love • Polly McLaren is young, scatty and impossibly romantic. She works for an arrogant and demanding boss, and has a gorgeous if never-there-when-you-need-him boyfriend. But the day a handsome stranger recognises her old school scarf, her life is knocked completely off kilter • Adam is American, new to the country and begs Polly's help in finding his missing fiance. Over dinner at the Savoy, she agrees - the girls of St Gertrude's look out for one another. However, the old-girl network turns out to be a spider's web of complications and deceit in which everyone and everything Polly cares about is soon hopelessly entangled

What would you do if your husband became another person overnight? • When Molly married Alex Frazer, she knew it was for ever • But after a night out with his twin brother, Graeme, a terrible injury leaves Alex with permanent brain damage • In a single moment the man she married is transformed into someone new • Someone who has forgotten how to love her, and someone Molly isn't sure she can ever love again • How can she stay married to a man she doesn't know? • Should she let the future she dreamed of slip through her fingers? • And what really happened on the night that turned her husband into a stranger?

Психология отношений, несовершенность человеческой натуры, драма, любовь и предательство, убийства и напряжённое повествование - в романе Шери Лапеньи есть все • На первый взгляд может показаться, что семья Конти живет обычной счастливой жизнью. Энн и Марко любят друг друга, у них красивый дом и очаровательный ребенок, вдобавок им хватает времени на веселые вечеринки с соседями. Однако они совершают непростительную ошибку: отправляются в гости, оставив полугодовалую Кору спать в кроватке. Казалось бы, что может случиться, если они находятся в соседнем доме, каждые полчаса проверяют дочь, да к тому же установили видеоняню? Тем не менее, вернувшись домой, они обнаруживают, что Кору похитили. Эта трагедия обнажает язвы внешне благополучной семьи - депрессию Энн, финансовые проблемы Марко, двоякую роль Ричарда, отца Энн… Только узнав все до конца, мы поймем, кто смог решиться на такое чудовищное преступление

Even the approach to Christmas fails to excite restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of the sweet and tobacconist shops owned by her feckless father. There are dark secrets in Arthur Conway's past, and these come tragically to light when Agnes's younger sister falls pregnant by one of the notorious Felton brothers. And Agnes herself has a secret, which she knows she must keep from her father: her relationship with Charles Farrier, son of a local landowner, who outrages his own wealthy, pious family by proposing marriage • However Charles is not the only man who could shape Agnes's furture, as his brother Reginald makes no secret of his admiration for her. But she could not have foreseen how significant a part he is to play in her destiny

I want to make my husband fall back in love with me • Let me explain. This isn't an exercise in 1950s wifeydom. I haven't been reading articles in old women's magazines. 'Twenty ways to keep your man'. That couldn't be further from the truth • I want him to fall back in love with me so that when I tell him to get the hell out of my life he'll care. He won't just think, 'Oh good' • I want it to hurt • Paula has had Robert's back since they got together as drama students • She gave up her dreams so he could make it • Now he's one of the nation's most popular actors • And Paula's just discovered he's having an affair • She's going to remind Robert just what he's sacrificing • And then she's going to break his heart like he broke hers • It will be her greatest acting role ever

My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression. Fleeing Hungary in 1938 as the German army approaches, acclaimed poet Faludy journeys to Paris, where he finds a lover but merely a cursory asylum. When the French capitulate to the Nazis, Faludy travels to North Africa, then on to America, where he volunteers for military service. Missing his homeland and determined to do the right thing, he returns - only to be imprisoned, tortured, and slowly starved, eventually becoming one of only twenty-one survivors of his camp

From the outside, anyone would think that Lucy Palmer has it all: loving children, a dashing husband and a gorgeous home • But when her marriage to Michael comes to an abrupt and unexpected end, her life is turned upside down in a flash • As the truth of her marriage threatens to surface, Lucy seizes the opportunity to swap her house in London - and the stories it hides - for a rural escape to her parents' farmhouse in the Chilterns • But Lucy gets more than she bargained for when she moves back to her childhood home, especially when it throws her into the path of an old flame • Coming face-to-face with her mistakes, Lucy is forced to confront the secrets she's been keeping from herself and those she loves • Is she ready to let someone in? Or will she leave the door to her past firmly closed

Flora's been in love with her husband for twenty years. The trouble is, he's been married to someone else for the past fifteen • Now she's been invited to spend the summer in the sandy coves of Cornwall, which should be blissful • But there's one small snag: she'll be staying with her former mother-in-law, Belinda • And then her ex-husband shows up out of the blue, complete with his new wife • Can Flora spend the summer playing happy families with the woman who stole her husband's heart, and the mother-in-law who might have had a hand in it? • Could a holiday romance help her finally get over her him? • And will stumbling on the family secret change her mind about them all? • If you like Fern Britton, Katie Fforde and Jill Mansell, you'll love this irresistible and heart-warming summer read from the bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and About Last Night

Discover the power of unforgotten love in this sparkling romantic comedy from the bestselling author of A Rural Affair and A Cornish Summer • Every girl's got one - that old boyfriend they never quite fell out of love with… • Tessa Hamilton's thirty, with a lovely husband and home, two adorable kids, and not a care in the world. Sure her husband ogles the nanny more than she should allow. And keeping up with the Joneses is a full-time occupation. But she's settled and happy. No seven-year itch for Tessa • Except at the back of her mind is Patrick Cameron. Gorgeous, moody, rebellious, he's the boy she met when she was seventeen. The boy her vicar father told her she couldn't see and who left to go to Italy to paint. The boy she's not heard from in twelve long years

Settle into this intoxicating and tantalising romantic comedy from the bestselling author of A Cornish Summer and A Rural Affair • A girl can get into all kinds of trouble just by going back to work • Henrietta Tate gave up everything for her husband Marcus and their kids. But now that the children are away at school and she's rattling round their large country house all day she's feeling more than a little lost • So when a friend puts her in touch with Laurie, a historian in need of a PA, Henrietta heads for London. Quickly, she throws herself into the job. Marcus is - of course - jealous of her spending so much time with her charming new boss. And soon enough her absence causes cracks to form in their marriage that just can't be papered over

Indulge in this wonderfully warm and witty story of love, loss and laughter from the bestselling author of A Cornish Summer and A Rural Affair • 'What could be nicer than living in the country?' • Lucy Fellowes is in a bind. She's a widow living in a pokey London flat with two small boys and an erratic income. But when her mother-in-law offers her a converted barn on the family's estate - she knows it's a brilliant opportunity for her and the kids • But there's a problem • The estate is a shrine to Lucy's dead husband Ned. The whole family has been unable to get over his death. If she's honest, the whole family is far from normal. And if Lucy is to accept this offer she'll be putting herself completely in their incapable hands • Which leads to Lucy's other problem