Lesley Glaister

WW1 is over. As a nurse at the front, Clementine has found and lost love, but has settled for middle class marriage. Vincent had half his face blown off, and wants more than life offers now. Drawn together by their shared experiences at the Front, they have a compulsive relationship, magnetic and parasitic, played out with blackmail and ending in disaster for one of them.

Little Egypt, once a well-to-do country house, looks deserted but it isn’t. Twins Isis and Osiris, still live in the home they were born in, and from which in the 1920s their Egyptologist parents left them, to search for the fabled tomb of Herihor – but never returned. The twins have been guarding a terrible secret, but a chance meeting with young American anarchist Spike, sparks an unlikely friendship and proves a catalyst for change.

Since she walked out on her life at sixteen, Lamb believes in being alone - completely alone. When she meets Doggo, a young criminal on the run, there are glimpses of a different life, if only each could learn to trust. X rated, contains offensive language.

Inis has run away from her husband and children. Her new neighbour Trixie is eighty-four years old and a hymn-singing Salvation Army veteran. Trixie's life is one of apparent calm but beneath the surface lie not one but three different personalities. One of them is very private. And very dangerous.