Melissa Nathan

A young couple engage a nanny to care for their newborn never dreaming the nanny was their worst nightmare.

When fifty-year-old Kate Armitage is made redundant after thirty years with a London publishing company, she decides, perhaps rashly, to spend her nest egg on the country cottage of her dreams. Leaving friends and former lovers behind, she embarks on a new life in a small village, planning to write a novel. Despite the (mostly) well-intentioned interventions of her new neighbours, Kate puts pen to paper, and as she retraces the history of her parents' marriage, she uncovers some truths about herself, and her lifelong search for love...

An irresistible romantic comedy in the bestselling tradition of Jenny Colgan, Fiona Walker and Jill MansellWhen Jo Green takes a nannying job in London to escape her small-town routine, complicated family, and perfect-on-paper boyfriend Shaun, culture shock doesn't even begin to describe it. Dick and Vanessa Fitzgerald are the most incompatible pair since Tom and Jerry, and their children - glittery warrior pixie Cassandra, bloodthirsty Zak and shy little Tallulah - are downright mystifying. Suddenly village life seems terribly appealing.Then, just as Jo's getting the hang of their designer lifestyle, the Fitzgeralds acquire a new lodger and suddenly she's sharing her nanny flat with the distractingly good-looking but inexplicably moody Josh. So when Shaun turns up, things get even trickier...

After years as a sweet, good-natured pushover, Annie Markham has had to face up to three hard truths:You've got to be tough to succeed in business and romance.Sometimes your meddling loved ones areright about your worthless, no-good boyfriend being worthless and no good.The only reliable thing about men is thatthey're totally unreliable.Okay, she's been persuaded. So now, seven years after wisely and abruptly dumping the "love of her life," Jake Mead, things should be going better for Annie Markham, right? Unfortunately, her life's going nowhere, her family's going mental, and the family business is heading straight down the tubes. Could it get worse? Of course! Jake's back, Annie's getting ready for bankruptcy, and no one's ready for Christmas ... let alone a happy New Year.And no amount of persuasion will ever convince Annie that magic does happenand dreams do come true, not even at the stroke of midnight on December 31 at New York's Plaza Hotel ... will it?