Maeve Haran

In the dead of night, in the pouring rain, a drunk driver smashes his car into a young man....

Four old university friends, Dora, Penny, Nell and Moira, reunite to relive that first hippy-dippy trip together to a beautiful, unspoilt, romantic Greek island looking for sun, sand and sea....

Friends and lovers, old and new, come together and fall apart in deepest France culminating in a very special château wedding....

Liz Ward believed that it was possible to have it all. A glittering career, a successful marriage and a happy family....

Each month best friends Claudia, Sal, Ella and Laura meet for drinks, celebrating 45 years of friendship....

Stella Ainsworth has settled for suburban peace with a pedantic husband, a dissatisfied daughter and a clutch of beloved grandchildren - who all take her presence in their lives for granted....

Sixteen-year-old Frances Stuart arrives at the Restoration court to find her innocence and beauty are highly prized commodities, envied by the women and desired by the men.....

Catherine Hope can control her class of 30 noisy school children, but trying to keep her 17 year old daughter on track for A Levels, that's a different matter....

Ann More, fiery and spirited daughter of the Mores of Loseley House, comes to London destined for a life at the court of Queen Elizabeth. And there she encounters John Donne....