Sue Watson

Carly had thought they’d always live there. The beautiful Cornish cliffside house they’d taken on as a wreck, that Mark had obsessively redesigned and renovated - a project that had made him famous....

Marianne has a life others dream of. A beautiful townhouse, three bright children, and a successful surgeon husband, Simon. Then Simon says another woman’s name. The way he lingers on it, Caroline, gives Marianne a shudder of suspicion....

Clare is ready for a break. It's been a tough year and now she wants to put her feet up. Arriving at the Italian villa for their summer holiday, she decides it's high time her husband and his family did some of the work. After all, her husband owes her.... 

My darling son, Sam, is marrying his childhood sweetheart, and I couldn’t be prouder of the man he’s grown into. Walking out on his abusive father all those years ago was the best thing I ever did. And today he stands, tall and handsome, saying "I do" to my dream daughter-in-law.... 

Hannah has done everything to make sure her life is safe and secure. A long way from her unstable childhood growing up in foster care, she’s content with her sweet, little, messy apartment and her satisfying job as a social worker....

Kat remembers the days when her only daughter Amy wouldn't leave her side. Amy was the baby who cried when you walked out of the room, the toddler who was too shy to speak to strangers, the small child who clung to Kat's legs in the school playground....

Lucy has a kind and adoring husband, a job she loves as a teacher, and a house on Mulberry Avenue with floaty curtains and the softest bed linen. After her troubled childhood, she knows life will never be perfect, but it’s pretty close....

A year after she separated from her husband, Gianni, on Christmas day, Chloe’s heart is finally on the mend as she unpacks the decorations for her first ever festive holiday alone. That is, until the phone rings....  

Since Faye met her Aussie boyfriend Dan, they’ve traveled all over the world to meet in amazing, crazy, and romantic locations. Neither of them wanted to settle down… until now. When Dan asks Faye to marry him and to move to Australia it throws a real spanner in the works....

Marianne ha la vita che ha sempre sognato. Una bellissima casa, affacciata sulla strada più esclusiva del quartiere. Tre splendidi bambini...

Rosie Jackson is beginning to slowly come to terms with a new life and a new future at the age of 65....

Faye Dobson sente di aver perso la propria luce, di non riuscire a trovare il modo di riacciuffare un'esistenza che le scivola pian piano...