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Polly has always been the high-flier of the family, with the glamorous city lifestyle to match. Clare is a single mum with two children, struggling to make ends meet in a ramshackle cottage. The two sisters are poles apart and barely on speaking terms. But then Polly's fortunes change unexpectedly and her world comes crashing down. Left penniless and with nowhere else to go, she's forced back to the village where she and Clare grew up, and the sisters find themselves living together for the first time in years. 

A seaside holiday at Shell Cottage in Devon has always been the perfect escape for the Tarrant family. But this year everything has changed. Following her husband's recent death, Olivia is struggling to pick up the pieces. Harriet's looking forward to a break with her lovely husband, Robert, and teenage daughter, Molly. But unknown to Harriet, Robert is hiding a secret - and so, for that matter, is Molly....

The new arrivals are checking in to the Ionian Escape hotel on the sun-soaked island of Kefalonia, and they're all hoping for a complete break from their everyday lives. But some of them are bringing quite a lot of baggage . . .

Leni and her sister Alice were best friends. But did they know each other as well as Alice thought? In the hope of coming to terms with her grief, she tries to piece together Leni's last weeks - but her discoveries only lead to more questions. And that's before the surprise reappearance of someone from the past. Meanwhile, the rest of the family seem to be falling apart. Belinda, Alice's mum, has developed an unhealthy obsession with a clairvoyant, and Tony, her dad, is stressed about becoming a father all over again, what with three failed marriages stacking up behind him.

On paper, Sadie's got it all—the partner, the children, the house. But in real life, that doesn't feel quite enough. Sadie can't help harking back to the time when she was a career woman by day and a party animal by night. And what happened to feeling like a sex kitten, anyway? The only sleepless nights she's getting now are due to the baby. Maybe a little reinvention is the answer. Sadie can't resist creating a fictitious online identity for herself as a hot TV producer. It's only a bit of harmless fun...until truth and fantasy become dangerously tangled.

Bienvenue au 11 Dukes Square à Brighton ! Trois étages, un magnifique bow-window au rez-de chaussée, une vue à couper le souffle : dans la jolie ville côtière de Brighton, SeaView House est une maison comme les autres dans un quartier où s’alignent les bâtiments style Régence. Mais ce qui fait la singularité de cette charmante et quelque peu surprenante villa, ce sont les résidents de passage qui semblent y échouer avec la marée.

Tailleur strict, coiffure sophistiquée et talons vertigineux, Polly ne vit que pour son travail dans une grande compagnie financière de la City de Londres. Un poste pour lequel elle a tout sacrifié pendant quinze ans. Aussi, quand elle est brutalement licenciée, c’est son univers qui s’effondre. Pire, la voilà bientôt obligée de renoncer à son luxueux appartement avec vue sur la Tamise et de trouver refuge chez sa soeur à Elderchurch, ce petit village au fin fond du Hampshire où elles ont grandi. Cela fait des années que Clare et elle n’ont plus rien en commun.

Depuis près de dix-huit ans, Eliza Spencer vit paisiblement dans une petite maison du Yorkshire avec sa mère Lara et Bruce, leur chat noir et grincheux. Avant de quitter le cocon familial pour l’université, il ne lui reste qu’une affaire à régler : comprendre pourquoi son père les a abandonnées des années plus tôt, sans jamais chercher à la revoir. Rien ne la préparait à l’explication qu’il lui donne : il n’est en réalité pas son père biologique.

Uma terrível descoberta leva Rosa a largar uma carreira de sucesso em Londres e, num impulso, recomeçar a vida como sous-chef em Brighton. O trabalho é árduo e estressante, mas a distrai. Bem, pelo menos até ela conhecer a adolescente emburrada que mora no apartamento ao lado, que a faz questionar suas escolhas. Georgie se muda para o Sul com o namorado, Simon, atrás de uma incrível oportunidade...para a carreira dele. A princípio, a cidade parece recebê-la de braços abertos, mas não vai demorar muito até ela se meter em várias enrascadas.

Evie sempre foi a ovelha negra da família: sonhadora e impulsiva, o oposto das irmãs mais velhas bem-sucedidas. Tentou fazer carreira como atriz, fotógrafa e cantora, mas nada deu muito certo. Às vezes, ao pular de um trabalho para outro, ela tem a sensação de que lhe falta um propósito. Quando sua tia preferida morre em um acidente de carro, Evie recebe uma herança inesperada, um café na beira da praia na Cornualha.