Joanna Trollope

The stories of Charlotte who follows her passions from Victorian London to Kabul; her granddaughter Alexandra whose true spirit is revealed in a portrait; and her great-granddaughter Cara who struggles to "find the courage to survive wartorn 1940s England."--Jacket.

The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new - one without professional achievements or meetings, but instead, long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, waiting for her successful husband to come home - she at...

The lives of two English couples are disrupted when one of the husbands leaves his wife for a homosexual. The abandoned woman seeks solace with the other couple and ends in bed with the husband. Four children complicate matters further.

"It's been 25 years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a vineyard and wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke and their idyllic Mediterranean life is thrown into upheaval, it's left to their three grown-up children in London to step in . . . Sebastian is busy running his company with his wife, Anna, who's never quite seen eye-to-eye with her mother-in-law. Katie, a successful solicitor...

Gathering weekly to commiserate over their relationships, careers, and hardships, six women find their circle changing significantly when one of their number meets an enigmatic man who inadvertently tests their closely forged bond.