Catherine Alliott

’You've gone all fat and complacent because you've got your man, haven't you?'Polly Penhalligan is outraged at the suggestion that since getting married to Nick and settling into their beautiful manor farmhouse in Cornwall she has let herself go. But...

Separated in every way but distance, Sebastian resides in a guest cottage across the lawn from Ella's ramshackle farmhouse.When Ella married the handsome, celebrated artist Sebastian Montclair at just nineteen she was madly in love. Now, those...

"I don't care what color you paint the sodding hall. I'm leaving."When her husband Johnny suddenly walks out on ten years of marriage, their ten-year-old daughter and the crumbling house they're up to their eyeballs renovating, Olivia is completely...

Evie Hamilton’s biggest worry is when to book her next manicure. Happily married with an accomplished teenage daughter, she loves her privileged English country lifestyle. But when a mysterious letter exposes a crushing family secret, her Oxfordshire...

Annie O'Harran is getting married … all over againA divorced, single mother, Annie is about to tie the knot with David. But there's a long summer to get through first. A summer where's she's retreating to a lonely house in Cornwall, where's she's...

Family secrets revealed, unannounced house guests, a husband's wandering eye, and an old love affair to boot... so much for Flora's luxurious escape to the chateau in the South of France.When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered...