Prue Leith

Three women in their fifties - one widowed, one divorced and one never married - meet when they join a choir. When they decide to combine their talents to restore a run-down hotel on the Cornish coast and turn it into a spa offering holiday courses, conflict is bound to result. In the months that follow they discover that a choir can teach you a good deal more than how to sing.

World War II is not yet over when Laura Oliver falls in love with Giovanni, an Italian ex-prisoner-of-war, now a humble cook. Together, the couple flee to London where only their love for one another and their dream of opening a restaurant business keeps them going.

Lotte is in unfamiliar territory. After a divorce, she has abandoned her successful career as an architect for a degree in garden history, and taken a job as head gardener to millionaire Brody Keegan in Oxfordshire. As Lotte locks horns with her boss, she finds herself on an emotional roller coaster. She knows what is right for the garden, but - still raw from divorce - she is less sure of what is right for her.

From Cotswolds farmland to London fish markets, society ballrooms to icy gutters, this is a tale of prejudice and ambition, power and passion, and one couple's struggle to overcome all obstacles and carve out a life of their own.

Patrick and Jane lead increasingly different lives. Jane walks out on her marriage and has a passionate affair in India, but has she thrown away true love by mistake?

After growing up in her family’s restaurant business, Angelica Angelotti moves to Paris to learn French cuisine. When her marriage fails she returns to run the inn on her family's estate in Gloucestershire, but little does Angelica know that what awaits her there is the greatest challenge of her life - and a second chance at love.

Prue came to London in the early 1960s and, not long afterwards, opened Leith's Restaurant. By the mid-seventies she was a food columnist on the Daily Mail, had published several cookbooks and opened Leith's School of Food and Wine. This book reflects one lucky woman's incredible appetite for life.

Kate McKinnon has a small but thriving catering business. Her life is on an even keel but that's about to change. She gets a job cooking lunch at the Foreign Office and there she has her first fateful meeting with Oliver Stapler, Secretary of State. He's totally out of bounds, yet she falls for him, and though she tries to keep her feelings secret, rumours start to fly. When someone alerts the gutter press, who cares whether Kate's affair with Oliver is true or not?