Esther Freud

Rosaleen is still a teenager, in the early Sixties, when she meets the famous sculptor Felix Lichtman. Felix is dangerous, bohemian, everything she dreamed of in the cold nights at her Catholic boarding school. And at first their life together is glitteringly romantic but it's not long before Rosaleen finds herself fearfully, unexpectedly alone.

Kate lives in Nineties London, stumbling through her unhappy marriage. Close to breaking point, she sets off on a journey of her own, not knowing what she hopes to find.

Aoife sits at her husband's bedside as he lies dying and tells him the story of their marriage. But there is a crucial part of the story missing.

Spanning three generations of women, I Couldn't Love You More is an unforgettable novel about love, motherhood, secrets and betrayal - and how only the truth can set us free.

It is 1914, and Thomas Maggs lives with his parents on the Suffolk coast. Life is quiet, then one day a mysterious Scotsman arrives, looking for all the world like Sherlock Holmes. Mac is what the locals call him, but Mac isn’t a detective, he’s the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and together with his wife, they soon become a source of fascination and wonder to Thomas.