Louise Doughty

Yvonne Carmichael has a high-flying career, a beautiful home and a good marriage. But when she meets a stranger she is drawn into a passionate affair. Keeping the two halves of her life separate seems easy at first. But she can't control what happens next...

In 1927 Yenko is born, prince of a company of Coppersmith Gypsies. In rural Bohemia he is treasured, but the Great Depression and the rise of Nazism overwhelm his world. During the war the family are interned in a camp, and Yenko must decide whether to escape alone or risk perishing with his family.

Platform Seven, Peterborough Station, at 4am is deserted. The man sits on the bench at the far end of the platform, it is clear his choice is strategic. What the man doesn't realise is that he has company. Lisa Evans knows what he is about to do as she tries, and fails, to stop him walking to the platform edge. Two deaths on Platform Seven in eighteen months. No one is more desperate to understand what connects them than Lisa herself. After all, she was the first of the two to die...

A tale of three generations of a Romany family - from the Fens in the 1870s, via the backstreets of Victorian Cambridge to the modern day, and a society that no longer has a place for Travellers.

Two police officers knock on Laura's door and her life changes forever. They tell her that her nine-year old daughter Betty has been hit by a car and killed. When justice is slow to arrive, Laura decides to take her own revenge and begins to track down the man responsible.