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In the Summertime is a novel filled with wit, warmth and romance set deep in the South Downs.

Friends and lovers, old and new, come together and fall apart in deepest France culminating in a very special chateau wedding.

From the bestselling author of An Italian Holiday comes a humorous, thought-provoking novel about friendship, family and romance.

Sunshine, warmth, lemon blossom . . . Springtime in glorious Southern Italy can go to your head. Especially if you are escaping an overbearing husband, the embarrassingly public loss of your company, an interfering mother who still tries to run your life or the pain of a husband's affair with a girl young enough to be his daughter. As the Italian sun ripens the lemons in the groves that tumble down the hillsides and the Mediterranean dazzles beneath them, assertive Angela, extrovert Sylvie, unconfident Claire and mousy Monica find burgeoning friendship and begin to blossom in quite unexpected ways. Packed with memorable characters--from the acid-tongued Grand Old Man of Modern Art who lives next door--to the aspiring gigolo who thinks nothing of a 40 year age gap, this novel is a witty and entertaining reminder of why going a little mad in the sun can sometimes be exactly what you need.

A novel about friendship and making the most of life from the bestselling author of Having It All, The Time of Their Lives and An Italian Holiday

From the bestselling author of Having It All and What Became of You My Love?

Imagine the song the world fell in love with was written about you.

Liz Ward believed that it was possible to 'have it all' - a glittering career, a successful marriage and a happy family. She wanted it to be possible. But with the chance to become one of the most powerful women in television comes the knowledge that it all could just be a con. Liz accepts the job of programme controller at Metro TV, only to find that it may be the biggest mistake of her life.

From the bestselling author of Having It All Haven't you heard? Sixty is the new forty . . . Each month best friends Claudia, Sal, Ella and Laura meet for drinks, celebrating 45 years of friendship. They know each other and their lives inside out. Their ambitions, careers, husbands, lovers, children, hopes, fears, the paths taken and not taken . . . Sal had spent a lifetime building a career as a successful magazine editor but she hadn’t banked on the one thing over which she had no control. Claudia loved her urban existence – the thought of the country sent shivers down her spine. But, as many women will know, other people’s needs always seem to come first . . . Ella is ready to try something different. But she hadn’t bargained on quite such a radical change . . . Laura succumbed to the oldest cliché in the book. But it didn’t make it any easier to accept. Outside of the supportive world of their friendships, they find their lives are far from what they expected – the generation that wanted to change the world didn’t bargain on getting old. A truthful, provocative, funny and inspiring novel, The Time of their Lives, asks hard questions about what the world offers women as they get older and finds both moving and joyously uplifting answers in the different ways the four friends celebrate their coming of age . . .

Good bread, warm towels, crisp mornings, girls' nights out, eating the froth on the cappuccino: these are the ordinary pleasures that make life worth living. This title describes how the little things in life can prove to be the most satisfying. It features hundreds of everyday delights, designed to remind us how joyous life is.