Joanna Trollope

Returning to his wife and daughters after a tour of duty in Afghanistan, British major Dan Riley struggles to adjust back to civilian life while his family evaluates the difficult sacrifices they must make to support him.

A modern retelling of the Jane Austen classic follows the Dashwood sisters--Elinor, Marianne and Margaret--as they, after the death of their father, must come to terms with the cruelties of life without the status of their country house, the protection of the family name or the comfort of an inheritance.

A cathedral in need of repair splits an English town. One faction of the community concludes the way to finance it is to put an end to the expensive and nowadays rather irrelevant boys' choir. But another faction is prepared to fight to death to save it. By the author of The Rector's Wife.

Deserted by her husband, Alexia Langly and her infant daughter move to her crumbling ancestral home in Scotland. There, Alexia begins a new life by converting the mansion into a successful bed & breakfast. Two decades later, Alexia's strong-willed daughter, Carly, sets out to complete the family legacy. Armed with a 150-year-old diary, she will follow in the steps of her namesake to a distant, exotic land.

The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new - one without professional achievements or meetings, but instead, long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, waiting for her successful husband to come home - she at...

Explores the hard-won truths and often harder-to-overcome difficulties of coping with the members of stepfamilies--with present and former husbands and wives, and above all, with other people's children.

"It's Eleanor who starts the Friday night get-togethers. From her window she sees two young women with small children, separate, struggling, and plainly lonely--and decides to ask them in. Gradually a group of six different and disparate women forms. They range in age from Jules, who is twenty-two and wants to be a DJ, to Eleanor herself, who is a retired professional and walks with a cane. They include one wife, three mothers, and five working...