Rosie Thomas

In London, on the brink of the Sixties, two runaways plunge into the whirl of Soho nightlife.

Mattie faces the hard slog of repertory companies and a sleazy strip-club in search of fame as an actress. But, when it comes, stardom is not enough, and the love that Mattie desires seems to elude her.

Julia choose marriage and Ladyhill, a beautiful Dorset manor house. Then, after the tragedy, she realises that to achieve true independence she will have to risk her marriage and her child.

Though each has to make her own choices, their friendship - despite the guilt and betrayal - endures over three turbulent decades.

CONTENT WARNING: contains scenes of a sexual nature

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Jess Arrowsmith is powerless to resist her attraction to Rob, the person she has reason to hate most in the world. Contains some explicit sex and strong language

Teenage Ruby runs away from England to her grandmother in Cairo, where an unlikely bond forms between the two. Ruby helps her grandmother write up her memories of the Second World War and learns of the passionate affair with the enigmatic Captain Xan Molyneux. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for the first time in her life, to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India. As war engulfs Europe, the Watkins are in remote Ladakh, high up in the Himalayas. Nerys is lonely, but she makes a glamorous new friend, Myrtle McMinn, who introduces her to the lakeside city of Srinagar.

Miranda Meadowe, reviving a university dream, invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and to stave off the prospect of old age. When building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of a tribal queen, the outside world descends on their idyllic retreat, and the future that beckons is very different from the one they imagined.

Olivia left her english roots far behind when she married a Greek man and settled on a small island. A tidal wave devastates the island and washes up Kitty, a mysterious stranger. Olivia offers her shelter but her happiness is threatened as Kitty starts to take over her life.

Alice Peel and James Rooker meet on an Antarctic research station. He is a man on the run, she is escaping from a failed relationship. An epic story of love and adventure set against the stunning backdrop of Antarctica.

Al and Sam are men driven by their own demons, and Finch is a woman with a dream of her own. With Everest towering in the background, a passionate relationship is being played out between them, with tragic consequences.

Although born into an aristocratic family, Amy Lovell is not suited to a life of indulgence. Curious about the world she takes up nursing as a career and is drawn into the radical politics of the 1930's, both national and international. Some explicit sexual content.