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When dynamic, power-dressing Christie blows in like a warm wind to take over their department, five very different women find themselves thrown together at work. But none of them could have predicted the fierce bond of friendship that her leadership would inspire...
Anna, 39, is reeling from the loss of her fiance, who ran off with a much younger woman. Her pride in tatters, these days Anna finds it difficult to leave the house. So when a handsome, mysterious stranger takes an interest in her, she's not sure whether she can learn to trust again? Then there's Grace, in her fifties, trapped in a loveless marriage with a man she married because, unable to have children of her own, she fell in love with his motherless brood. Grace worries that Dawn is about to make the same mistake: orphaned as a child, engaged to love-rat Calum, is Dawn more interested in the security that comes with his tight-knit, boisterous family? When a sexy, footloose rock singer catches her eye, will Dawn have the courage to follow her heart?
At 28, Raychel is the youngest member of their little gang. And with a loving husband, Ben, and a cosy little nest for two, she would seem to be the happiest. But what dark secrets are lurking behind this perfect facade, that make sweet, pretty Raychel so guarded and unwilling to open up? Under Christie's warm hand, the girls soon realise they have some difficult choices to make. Indeed, none of them quite realised how much they needed the sense of fun, laughter, and loyalty that abounds when five women become friends. It's one for all, and all for one!
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Pocket / Simon & Schuster |
| The Netherlands | Mistral/ FMB |
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When Lou Winter picks up a dog-eared magazine in the dentist's waiting room and spots an article about clearing clutter, she little realises how it will change her life. What begins as an earnest spring clean soon spirals out of control.
Before long Lou is hiring skips in which to dump the copious amounts of junk she never knew she had. Lou's loved ones grow disgruntled. Why is clearing out cupboards suddenly more important than making his breakfast, her husband Phil wonders?
The truth is, the more rubbish Lou lets go of, the more light and air can get to those painful, closed-up places at the centre of her heart: the love waiting for a baby she would never have, the empty space her best friend Deb once occupied, and the gaping wound left by her husband's affair.
Even lovely Tom Broom, the man who delivers Lou's skips, starts to grow concerned about his sweetest customer. But Lou is a woman on a mission, and not even she knows where it will end ...
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Pocket / Simon & Schuster |
| Germany | Luebbe |
| Latvia | Kontinents |
| Spain | Ediciones Versatil |
| The Netherlands | Mistral/ FMB |
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Romance writer and single mum Stevie Honeywell has only weeks to go to her wedding when her fiance Matthew runs off with her glamorous new friend Jo MacLean.
It feels like history repeating itself for Stevie, but this time she is determined to win back her man. She isn't going to act as he might expect. She isn't going to wail and dig her heels in, she is simply going to pretend to let him go whilst she pursues a mad course of dieting, exercising and self-improvement.
And it feels like history is repeating itself for Adam MacLean too, who is also determined to win his lady, Jo, back with the same basic psychological tactics. Then he is going to initiate his master plan: Getting together with Stevie to drive Jo wild with jealousy.
So, like the Scottish country jig 'The Birds and the Bees', the couples all change partners and learn some revealing truths about each other along the way.
But what happens when Adam's master plan actually starts to work? And just who will Stevie be dancing with when the music stops?
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Simon & Schuster |
| Germany | Luebbe |
| Italy | Longanesi |
| The Netherlands | Foreign Media Group / Truth & Dare |
| Norway | Cappelen Damm |
| Spain | Nabla Actividades |
| Slovakia | Motyl |
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Elizabeth, Helen and Janey have been best friends ever since Ms Ramsay forced them together in Latin class. Now, as the big 4-0 looms, Helen’s baby hunger reaches fever pitch and the others just can ’t refuse her the one favour she has ever asked them.
Picnicking on a giant chalk fertility symbol, however, the others realise they may have agreed to a lot more than a favour.
There follows a year which turns life upside down for them all – especially fierce, single Elizabeth, who is given another chance with John, the gentle giant she pushed away years before, when he got too close…
Like a conversation with a very close friend, The Yorkshire Pudding Club is essential comfort reading
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Pocket / Simon & Schuster |
| Germany | Luebbe |
| Italy | Longanesi |
| The Netherlands | Foreign Media Group / Truth and Dare |
| Slovakia | Motyl |
| Spain | Ediciones Versatil |
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