Deborah Moggach

Family relationships break up and dramatic developments look set to change them for ever - for better or worse. X rated, explicit sexual content.

In a burst of despair, after being thrown out by his wife, Desmond decides to search out Edward the young son he has never seen.

Beautiful Natalie is in a dead-end job, and is yearning for more. When she sees a chance to change her life she takes it, with tragic consequences for other people. Contains some offensive language.

From swimming on Hampstead Heath to house-sitting with troublesome dogs, or illicit afternoon trysts in Soho to pedicures in Florence with recalcitrant teenagers, this collection of short stories includes some previously unpublished in audio, and covers the gamut of human nature - our foibles, our loves, our desires, hopes, ambitions and failures.

How much is a girl worth? The successful Price family have to decide this when their seventeen year old daughter is kidnapped. But the price paid comes to more than just money!

Enticed by advertisements for a luxury retirement home in India, a group of strangers leave England to begin a new life. On arrival, however, they discover the palace is a shell of its former self, the staff are more than a little eccentric and the days of the Raj appear to be long gone. But, as they soon discover, life and love can begin again, even in the most unexpected circumstances. Also published under the title The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

In 17th century Amsterdam, wealthy merchant Cornelius commissions a portrait of himself and his young wife Sophia. As the portrait grows so does a passion between Sophia and the artist, leading them into an intricate deception with tragic consequences.