Anna Tobias, an expert sailor and a highly paid City yacht-broker, buys a magical but expensive home with the man she loves. But her world disintegrates as the glamour and greed of the 1980s come crashing to an end, leaving her alone and destitute. Her life becomes a question of survival.
WHO NEEDS FRIENDS?Poor little rich girl Ryder Harding did. And her father bought them with his money. Touchy and awkward, Ryder moves into a flat with the intriguing Alix Bassingham and talented, red-haired Imogen Lydden and, suddenly, she blossoms.OR ENEMIES?But when Ryder's unscrupulous businessman father is imprisoned for fraud, her new-found confidence is shattered. Her lover betrays her. Her friends appear to let her down. Alone and penniless, with her five-year-old brother to look after, Ryder has only one asset - her father's legacy of Bailing Airfield.FRIENDS AND OTHER ENEMIESCharting the ebb and flow of female friendships and set against a background of international polo and transatlantic airlines, this is a powerful contemporary saga of a woman who throws down a challenge - to life, to business and to the tough, unpredictable man who loves her.