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'You don’t mean you're going to divorce him?' Miss Spanner said with horror. A sophisticated, emotive novel, Chatterton Square concerns the complex web of relationships between two neighbouring families, the Blacketts and the Frasers. Framed by the advance of the Second World War, the subtle mechanics of marriage and love are laid bare through the observation of three of the marital options open to the mid-century woman: unmarried, separated, miserably married.

Poet, forger, and genius, Thomas Chatterton died in 1770, aged 18. His death was thought to be suicide: But what really happened? Two hundred years later, Charles Wychwood and Harriet Scrope become obsessed with decoding the clues in an 18th-century manuscript. Their investigation raises some intriguing questions....

A century before, as 19th-century artist Henry Wallis paints his celebrated portrait of Chatterton lying dead in an attic room, he, too, becomes fascinated by the mystery. Then Chatterton himself steps forward, with his own story....

"Er hat die Selbstsicherheit eines leibhaftigen Teufels" - so das Urteil des angesehenen und wohlhabenden Arztes Austin Sloper über den Lebemann Morris Townsend, der um seine unscheinbare Tochter Catherine wirbt. Die junge Frau ist verliebt, der Vater misstrauisch - diese Konstellation ist in der Literatur erst einmal nichts Neues. Doch Henry James näherte sich mit psychologischem Röntgenblick einem scheinbar bekannten Thema und entwickelte daraus ein spitzzüngiges und messerscharfes Porträt der amerikanischen Gesellschaft um 1850.

Washington Square tells the poignant and gently comic story of Catherine Sloper, a sweet and unassuming young heiress, and her fortune-seeking suitor Morris Townsend. Set in New York City during the 1840s, the story follows Ms. Sloper's conflicts with her concerned father, who attempts to thwart Mr. Townsend, and her busybody aunt, who encourages the attachment. But amid all the duplicity and folly, Ms. Sloper slowly grows towards independence and maturity, and begins to make her own decisions.