OUR WRITERS MEAN BUSINESS 
***WINNER OF THE RNA NEW WRITER'S AWARD 1998***
*** A UK SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BEST-SELLER ***
When she chucked in her safe job and raced up the M40 to read English at Oxford, Julia Cole didn't give a thought to the future. But now she's thirty, newly graduated and it's pay-back time - at least as far as the bank is concerned. Living in a one room flat with a cat providing her only male company, Blind Date her only regular Saturday night engagement and her last relationship further in the past than a pay cheque, she can't help wondering if she's missing the point.
Until the tall, handsome and only slightly younger Rob strides into the class she teaches. And then his alarming brother, Leo, a barrister with a penchant for cross questioning, strides into her friend Maggie's party and puts Julia in the stand. Suddenly Julia's life is hotting up.
But is she taking both brothers at face value? And is she overlooking the obvious?
Perhaps Julia should try reading between the lines. . .
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Heinemann |
| Hungary | Pannonica |
| Italy | Marco Polillo |
| Russia | Moy Mir |
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Louise isn't sure where her life took the wrong turning, but it's not shaping up quite as well as she might have hoped. She's just turned 32, her job for party-planners - the latest in a long line of occupations - might kindly be described as not her natural forte, and she watches helplessly as her dynamic elder sister charges up the career path. The only road Louise seems to be on is the road paved with good intentions. Scatty, disorganised, bad at co-ordinating her wardrobe, Louise resolves it's time to get it together. Even her boyfriend is part time.
But then she discovers she's succeeded at one thing - getting pregnant.
Life changes dramatically. A baby is the least thing her feckless boyfriend wants. But it's the one thing her sister, settled and content in a relationship, yearns for.
Louise must decide what she really wants...
“Thoroughly enjoyable…leaves you wanting more” U Magazine
"Funny, original and thought-provoking" Katie Fforde
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Simon & Schuster |
| Czech Republic | Michal Suchanek |
| Hungary | Pannonica |
| Russia | Moy Mir |
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EMBRACING THE SIMPLE LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN
SO COMPLICATED...
When she swaps her career in banking and executive suits for a course in horticulture and a pair of wellies, Ella is relieved to leave a cut throat world behind. With two lodgers to help her meet the mortgage on her tumbledown cottage – glamorous, worldly divorcee Miranda and unglamorous, unworldly Faith – Ella is extremely satisfied with her new arrangements. Miranda’s flair and Faith’s practical skills will help her in tarting up the cottage, and her course tutor, Matt, is a dish. It can’t go wrong.
Except that Matt is married, Faith and Miranda can’t stand each other and Simon, the dog, is determined to destroy the cottage. When a single and very attractive new vet arrives at the practice where Faith works, the cracks start to widen. And just to make life more complicated, Ella is thrown into the company of the tall, gorgeous and engaged Jaz Singh – member of the local CID and symbol of the establishment she has left behind – just as Matt, wavering about leaving his wife, seems to be reaching a decision.
Craving the simple life she has planned, Ella finds herself trying to keep the peace in a volatile household, embroiled in a simmering relationship with a man who is married, and spending far too much time with another whose wedding is only months away.
But is life really beyond her control? Perhaps it is Ella herself who is beating about the bush.
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Heinemann |
| Bulgaria | Hermes |
| Hungary | Pannonica |
| Latvia | Kontinents |
| Russia | Moy Mir |
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Cathy Gordon has made a discovery. Adopted at birth, she suddenly finds she has a grandfather. So despite the protestations of her possessive boyfriend, she heads off to Oxford to find Frank.
Frank turns out to be a cricket mad, grumpy old man, but determined to bond with her only living relative, Cathy takes up the challenge. Fortunately, she finds an ally in Barry, Frank’s unlikely lodger, who assures her that life is there for the living. If only he wouldn’t keep trying to seduce her, she might have a chance to work out how much she likes him.
But when Cathy finds herself on the way to Edgbaston with the hunky Nick, she starts to realise that nothing is quite what it seems…
“Fast paced and funny, this is the perfect summer read” 19 Magazine
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Heinemann |
| Latvia | Kontinents |
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Caroline Blake longs for a night under a cloud-free sky with the telescope of her dreams. Busy, happily single and passionate about her hobby, her life is as ordered as the science classes she teaches.
Gwen Russell is living the life she’d longed for. With a lively young family, an adoring husband, good friends and almost enough money, she appears to have it all.
Antonia Clarke is a divorcee with a teenage daughter, an ailing car, an obstinate mother and a lodger she needs to placate. She longs for twenty-four uneventful hours – but the gods have other plans.
When the engaging Tom Grainger moves into each of the women’s lives, things start to change. Three women whose paths have already crossed find their fates are about to collide.
"This book is unputdownable." Christina Jones
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Simon & Schuster |
| Bulgaria | Hermes |
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When Ginny became preganant as an undergraduate years ago she never regretted her decision to leave university and raise her daughter as a single mum.
Now, though, with nineteen-year-old Marie off travelling in her gap year, a blast from the past brings surprising news that threatens to throw her well-ordered life into disarray...And then suddenly Ginny's sister, impulsive, free-spirited Charlotte, returns from abroad.
She has always prided herself on taking the road less travelled but now, bringing with her a surprise of her own, is she finally ready to settle down? Or does her heart lie somewhere further afield? And both Ginny and Charlotte are baffled by their mother's behaviour.
Surely a woman whose husband has left her for another woman should be displaying more emotion than Jane exhibits? Is she hiding her grief beneath her calm exterior or could she really be happier living alone? Everything seems to be falling apart. But maybe it's just falling into place.
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Simon & Schuster |
| Latvia | Kontinents |
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