Mary Wesley

In 1944 Henry Tillotson brings his new wife home to his farmhouse in the English countryside. She is a strange woman and seems determined to make Henry’s life miserable, but Henry manages to enjoy life and has quite a lot of fun one way and another.

A romantic and partly ruined house on Devon/Cornwall border is bought by a painter and his daughter. Mysterious events change their lives in a disturbing and delightful way.

An InterCity train brakes suddenly in the countryside, and a white-faced woman leaps off and races to the aid of a sheep stranded on its back, unable to rise. Seeing the woman's face full of tragedy, a fellow passenger does not intrude, but the image lodges in his mind.

Recently widowed, Matilda Poliport's meticulously planned suicide attempt is foiled. Later she in turn foils the suicide bid of Hugh, on the run from the police, and life begins again for them both. But life also throws up nasty secrets and awkward questions, both from Matilda's past and her present.

There were two men in Rose’s life: Ned, her husband and Mylo, her lover. After Ned’s funeral Rose looks back on 50 years of duplicity and chooses her future.

In 1941 a young woman is rescued from a London air-raid by a stranger. She finds peace in the West Country away from the intrusion of war.

When Laura Thornby meets twenty-three-year-old Claude Bannister, a struggling writer, she falls to the temptation of interfering with his life. What she does not imagine is that one day he will become a good writer and that she will fall in love.

Friendship of four children on an idyllic holiday in France, and their subsequent relationships over the next 40 years