Mavis Cheek

Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her husband dies in a bizarre accident. She decides to finish his history of Hurcott Ducis, but a reference to Anne of Cleves leads her to do her own research. Meanwhile, in the Louvre, Holbein's portrait of Anne begins to tell the story of how she survived the Tudor marriage.

For seventeen years Aunt Margaret has cared for niece Saskia who is now off to Canada for a year. With the help of an unexpected legacy Aunt Margaret decides to kick up her heels and have some fun!

Bookshop owner Diana is newly single. Her favourite piece of music, The Brahms Requiem, now stirs painful memories of her ex-life. She determines to do something outrageous to supplant these old memories, thus 'getting back Brahms'.

Angela Fytton, perfect wife and mother has been dumped. Once over the shock she sends her selfish teenagers to live with their father and new lady, moves to the country and waits. For she knows that sooner or later her husband will come back to her!

One child miraculously escaped the flames of 1940's Coventry. Patrick Parker was sent to London, and appeared to have a great future ahead of him as an architect. But things don't go as smoothly as he would wish, especially after he dumps Audrey, who adores him, for a woman who could advance his career! Contains some offensive language and explicit sex.

Joan's answer to life after divorce from Jack is simple - happy seclusion. But when her neighbours introduce her to the desirable actor Finbar Flynn, the walls of her citadel begin to crack.

Home, husband and family - everything in Dilys's life is lovely. Then she meets a man at the station who is also lovely - and that's where Dilys's problems start.

When Marianne Flowers is invited to a party, she has no idea that it will change her life for ever. Here she meets Charles and experiences her first romance. Marianne soon realises that there is a whole world out there before her. But how will this new, independently minded, Marianne find her place in this brand new world? X rated, explicit sexual content.

Molly Bonner is an archaeologist who has come to discover the truth behind the village of Lufferton Boney's greatest and most famous resident, the giant (and slightly obscene) Gnome, a fertility symbol etched into the face of Pound Hill. In the process, she shakes up the lives and loves of the colourful characters he looks down upon. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.