Mavis Cheek Books

After eleven years of marriage to an egocentric opera singer, Pat Murray packs up her daughter and leaves, regaining control of her life and approaching single parenthood bravely until she meets Roland and his pregnant wife

Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her husband dies in a bizarre ballooning accident. Seizing upon her new found freedom, she decides to finish the history of their village that Edward had begun . A reference to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII s fourth wife who he rejected for being ugly, captures Flora s imagination and she begins to delve deeper into the life of this neglected historical figure. Meanwhile, in the Louvre, Holbein s portrait of Anne of Cleves senses the tug of a connection and she begins to tell the real story of the injustices she suffered and just how she survived her marriage...

Angela Fytton - wonderwife, supermother, bedroom vamp and business partner - has been unceremoniously dumped. Like many a good wife before her she has been swapped by her husband for a younger model. Now, divorced but determined, she rediscovers the iron in her soul and decides to fight. She moves to the country leaving her entirely selfish teenage children with their father and his sweet new bride, and she waits. One day, she knows, her husband will return. Meanwhile she yields herself up to the notion that country life is pure and good and that country people are next to angels - and finds this is very far from the truth . . .

Lovely home, lovely husband, lovely family: apart from the envy of her less contented sister, everything in Dilys's rags-to-riches life is lovely, lovely, lovely. Until the day she meets a man at a railway station who is also - lovely. As she hurtles towards either her destruction or her liberation she discovers that deceit is in the blueprint of our birth, that ancient Aunts have their own dark secrets, that envious sisters have their reasons. And that when Brief Encounters meet Basic Instincts, the right choice, like truth, is rarely pure and never simple. 'Streets ahead of the usual run of romantic comedy . . . she draws real, three-dimensional characters, whose motives you can understand and whose emotions you care about.' Daily Mail

Patrick Parker, golden child of bomb-devastated Coventry, adored and encouraged by his mother, fulfils his dream destiny to be a bridge builder as great as Brunel. But Patrick has other plans and Audrey, miserable and abandoned, is left to follow her own journey to self-fulfilment beginning in Paris, and sinfulness, in the arms of a much older man.

Tabitha's Beauty Parlour is a haven. The women who cross its portals enter a perfumed world where never a hard note is struck. To Tabitha, Beauty is a broad canvas from which she will draw out what she can. But when Chloe, Tabitha's trainee, sets out to prove that she can give her clients the makeover of a lifetime, the quest for feminine perfection achieves hilarious consequences . . .

Claire Masterson was the girl at school that Maggie Owen always wanted to be. Confident, good-looking, she was the first to know the facts of life, the first to Sun-In her hair, the first, easily the first, to go all the way. And when Maggie bumps into her twenty years later, it is as if nothing has changed: Claire's life is one of career moves to New York and great sex with married men; Maggie's is one of bringing up her children and never seeing her partner Jake, whose ever-demanding job has become his 'other woman'. Or has it? Jake is consistently working late, working weekends, taking working trips abroad . . . Maggie is suspicious, and when Claire talks a little too knowledgeably about Jake, she starts thinking the unthinkable. Her friends think she should confront them, but Maggie's got a better idea: she's going to have her cake and eat it.

Pamela Pryor's son has, at long last, left home. She now feels a certain freedom -- and also certain restlessness. There have been three significant men in her life -- Peter, her ex-husband; Douglas, a style guru; and Dean, a beautiful younger man -- all of whom have begun to think of Pamela in romantic terms once more. But Pamela wants to get to know herself again and can't quite decide with which of her three suitors (if any) she should take up.

Höchst widerwillig schreibt Janice Gentle, dick, schokoladensüchtig und menschenscheu, ihre erfolgreichen Liebesromane - und nur aus einem Grund: Sobald sie genug Geld beisammen hat, will sie nach ihrer einzig wahren Liebe suchen, die sie vor zwanzig Jahren verloren hat. Doch als ihre Agentin Sylvia Perth an Herzschlag stirbt und die Lektorin Rohanne Bullbecker aus New York anreist, um Janice Gentle für den renommierten Pfeiffer-Verlag abzuwerben, ist es mit dem Dornröschendasein schlagartig vorbei. Janice Gentle erkennt, daß sie nach Strich und Faden betrogen wurde. Als sie der schönen und schlauen Ex-Prostituierten Erica von Hyatt begegnet, kommt ihr eine Idee. Und dann heißt es im Roman wie im Leben: Rache ist süß - fast so süß wie Schokolade...

Dilys' Leben verändert sich abrupt, als sie von einer zufriedenen Ehefrau zur leidenschaftlichen Geliebten eines anderen Mannes wird. Um ihren Ehemann zu beruhigen, muss sie ständig neue Ausflüchte finden. Ihre Tante Eliza könnte ihr dabei als perfektes Alibi dienen.