Clementine Hope, a newly divorced, thirty-something woman teaching music and working on a collection of fairy tales left to her by her great aunt, learns, in a moment of crisis, how to overcome the fear that paralyzes her life

Product Description: Rebecca Finch is a highly successful romantic novelist who has fallen out of love with love. When she heads off for a weekend in Paris and doesn't care that she has absent-mindedly left her boyfriend on the platform in Waterloo, things look bad...read more

By the time Grace is eighteen, she has been orphaned, moved countries and lost touch with her only brother. Talented, awkward and a little fierce, she can't help thinking that she's managed to lose anything she's ever loved. So she decides to revisit her past in America, and she's brought her camera - she's going to catch these memories.

Esther and Linus, although they have never met, have known of each other through their mothers for years, and suddenly find themselves meeting under the most unusual circumstances

A chronicle of three generations of women tells of Amelia Linday, who is fighting to make her grandmother's dearest wish come true while she copes with her troublesome boyfriend, her obsessive mother, and other problems