Sarah Harrison

Would you risk a stable marriage for a dangerous affair? Vivien Mariner loves her husband, and is adored by him in return. So why does she find herself so strongly drawn to John Ashe, the enigmatic stranger who appears in Eadenford, as if from nowhere, the summer after the Great War ends? Helping around the house and garden, Ashe quickly makes himself indispensable at the vicarage, insinuating himself ever deeper into village life. As the vicar's wife, Vivien must be above suspicion, but will the dark, dangerous pull of passion prove too strong for her to resist?

1929. Barbara Delahay was a beauty, a young and untouched English rose, enjoying the social whirl of the debutante season. But she attracted the attention of someone unsuitable; someone damaged. Now, in 1953, in an empty house, the widowed Barbara is cowering in fear. Her past has returned to claim her and this time it won't be so easy to deny.

Adeline Grundy follows her heart from 1920's Bloomsbury to the Caribbean and through two world wars, becoming the lover of famed novelist Marian Everstone, marrying three times, and making her own name as a portrait painter.

They were both outsiders in their way. But it was in the class-ridden community of a boys' public school in 1929 that the first spark of conflict was struck between Butler, the rich man's son, and Maitland, the gardener's boy. The 'Jumbo' Oliphant, a witness to the confrontation, had no way of knowing the terrible conclusion to which it would lead. When Singapore falls to the Japanese in 1942, the paths of these three men cross again, in the notorious Changi internment camp, and the hatred between Butler and Maitland surfaces once more, transcending the brutalities of captivity to develop its own murderous momentum ...

Left a young widow by the Great War, Pamela Griffe goes to work for the Jarvises, a charmingly eccentric couple whose Highgate house is a mecca for artist. She is drawn to the work of waiflike Suzannah Murchie, and to the subject of one of her portraits, John Ashe.