Nina Bawden

Carrie and Nick were wartime evacuees from London, billeted in Wales with old Mr. Evans and his timid mouse of a sister. Their friend Albert was luckier, living in Druid's bottom with Hepzibah Green and the strange Mister Johnny, and Carrie and Nick were happy to visit him there, until Carrie did a terrible thing, the worst thing she ever did in her life…

A compelling story of human suffering and a comedy of deception told by a painter.

Alex, abandoned as a baby in the stony arms of the Sphinx on London's Embankment, is adopted by a family. His happy life with them is disturbed when he inherits a lot of money, and questions of his past and real identity arise.

When a senile old man falls down stairs and dies, did he fall or was he pushed by his daughter-in-law, Emma? Here Emma, her husband and her friend Holly give their version of events.

Cat’s granny is a little unconventional: she rides a Harley-Davidson and shares her home with nine cats and four dogs. Cat is very happy living with her but then her parents decide she should live with them and Cat has a fight on her hands.

Cora had guessed that Angelica would be horrible, and she was. Could Angelica be a witch?

Clara and Bosie hoped Noel was right. But they all found the big, strange, isolated house and the grandparents they'd never met before rather daunting. And when David turned up and claimed he belonged there too, things got even more disturbing. There were too many secrets...

Amy thought the Hotel Parthenon in Greece would be a nice change for her M P husband, Tom, but the place is overrun with unlikely characters including Tom's ex-mistress.

Gandy is due to be installed in Nostalgia Block 95 to be "looked after", but he has other ideas and when he slips through a door off the road his grandson, Tom, follows him despite warnings about the barbaric Outside. Compulsive read set in 2040.

As he plans his 100th birthday 'celebration', Silas Mudd reviews his life and the family and friends around him, and the two wives he has outlived!