Product Description: A hilarious and utterly original novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of Life After Life.On a weather-beaten island off the coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother, Nora, take refuge in the large, mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories...read more

Product Description: Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic Patrica aged five, greedy cross-patch Gillian who refused to be ignored, and Ruby...read more

A dark yet moving exploration of a young girl's past begins on Isobel Fairfax's sixteenth birthday, when she comes to learn the truth about her strange family and the mysterious disappearance of her own mother. Reprint. NYT.

A family saga chronicles a century of life as four generations of Yorkshire women move through two World Wars, coronations, secrets, heartbreak, and happiness, all seen through the eyes of Ruby Lennox