The English Girl (46 page)

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THE SOLDIER’S WIFE

A forbidden love… a private war.

1940, Guernsey: Vivienne de la Mare waits nervously for the bombs to drop. Instead comes quiet surrender and insidious occupation. Nothing is safe any more. Her husband is fighting on the frontline and the facade of being the perfect wife is cracking. In her new life, the enemy lives next door.

When Vivienne accepts small acts of kindness from a Nazi soldier, it feels like a betrayal. But how can you hate your enemy when you know his name, when he makes you feel alive, when everything else is dying around you? Vivienne is fighting her own private war: on one side, the safe, secret, loving world she could build with the captain; on the other, virtuous loneliness and danger. It's time for Vivienne to choose: collaboration or resistance…

‘This absorbing novel is utterly beguiling’

Rosamund Lupton

THE DROWNING GIRL

Young single mum Grace is drowning.

Her little girl Sylvie is distant, troubled and prone to violent tantrums which the child psychiatrists blame on Grace. But Grace knows there’s something more to what’s happening to Sylvie. There has to be.

Travelling from the London suburbs to the west coast of Ireland, Grace and Sylvie embark on a journey of shocking discovery, forcing Grace to question everything she believes in and changing both their lives for ever.

‘Perfect holiday reading’

Adele Geras

THE PERFECT MOTHER

What really goes on behind closed doors?

Catriona has the life she’s always dreamed of: a loving husband, a delightful stepdaughter and her own precious little girl, Daisy. When Daisy begins to feel ill, Catriona seeks help and, in doing so, is forced to look to the past and her own dark and fractured childhood. Then Cat is accused of an unspeakable crime – and she begins to realise that the life she has now is more fragile than she could ever have imagined.

‘A captivating and beautifully written book’

Now Magazine

THE RIVER HOUSE

With you I’m in a different world; what happens in our world can’t harm anyone else…

Ginnie Holmes has found something she never intended to find – an overwhelming passion for a man she should not be with. At an abandoned boathouse hidden on the riverbank of the Thames, Ginnie steps into a world that’s an escape from the crush of an empty marriage and a drifting life.

But a terrifying event means the lovers’ secret becomes a deadly catastrophe. A woman is found murdered at the water’s edge, just near the river house. And Ginnie finds herself in the path of extraordinary danger, not only facing the exposure and grief that she has feared, but endangering herself and everyone she loves.

‘Margaret Leroy writes like a dream’

Tony Parsons