Faith Brook

Hermione has been oppressed by her husband for years but his desire to dominate women is becoming pathologically dangerous.

Carrie arrives in Italy to claim her inheritance but finds she is not the only one interested in the Villa Castellini.

A glamorous city lady disrupts the ladies quilting group in a small American town.

Harriet is caught between two worlds: her older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is still a little boy. And the comforting rhythm of her Indian childhood - the sounds of the jute factory, the colourful festivals that accompany each season and the eternal ebb and flow of the river on its journey to the Bay of Bengal - is about to be shattered by a tragic event.

Jinnie Howlett, a fifteen-year-old inmate of a northern workhouse, is offered a position as a maidservant on an isolated farm, but soon realises she has merely exchanged one type of drudgery for another.