Alison Child

Nicky's had more than her share of heartache. So when she meets a hot young stranger she thinks a little flirting can help her forget the past. She's married, but it's innocent enough. Except what starts as fun leads to a terrible ordeal, and a dark secret. Nicky's about to discover that the scars of love can last a lifetime.

Into the ruins of a relationship steps another woman, a more glamorous, more sophisticated and more sympathetic version. Standard plot, except that Eleanor feels she has lost her mother, and her replacement is her mother's new best friend.

The beauty and the geek, Lucy and Henry have been inseparable best friends for 20 years until glamorous Lucy decides that Henry, with his penchant for jumpers and NHS specs, is in need of a makeover. But nothing can prepare them for the surprise results! Before long Lucy realises that their lives will never be the same again.

Leonie has cut her ties with home and moved abroad to start a new life. When she discovers a box in her wardrobe containing a pile of unread love letters, all ending with the words ‘Please forgive me,’ she becomes fascinated by the mystery behind them.

When 17-year-old Phoebe Turner visits Wilton's Music Hall to watch her Aunt Cissy performing on stage, she risks the wrath of her mother Maud who marches with the Hallelujah Army, campaigning for all London theatres to close. While there, Phoebe is drawn to a stranger, the enigmatic Nathaniel Samuels.

In Paris, art student Aurlie Renard throws a stone and sets in motion a chain of events that will turn her life upside down. Meanwhile, in a Pigalle cinema, a naked man is doing his best to show the people of Paris, Aurlie among them, what it means to be alive . .

After years of failed fertility treatments, a cheating husband and an oppressive family, Eilidh seeks solace in the only place she’s ever felt at home – a small village in the Scottish Highlands. There, Eilidh slowly begins to mend her broken heart but soon learns she is not the only one in the village struggling to recover from a painful past.