Eva Rice

Set in England in the 1950s, at the start of the rock and roll era, this is a charming story of 17-year-old Penelope Wallace and her eccentric family. There's her beautiful widowed mother, her younger brother who's obsessed with Elvis, and a large crumbling ancestral home. Oh, and there's her best friend's cousin, Henry… Richard & Judy Bookclub

Marnie FitzPatrick is a reclusive sixth-former with a dysfunctional family, and Julie Crewe is a disillusioned maths teacher who lives vicariously through the girls she teaches. This is the story of summer 1967, when the sun burned down on the roof of the Shredded Wheat factory, and a boy called Freddie danced to the records he had stolen. This is what happens when three people are bound together by something that can't be explained by any equation.