This series delves into the intricate tapestry of family life, blending humor and drama with bittersweet moments. Follow characters as they navigate love, loss, and unexpected life turns. Each narrative offers an intimate look at forging relationships and finding happiness amidst challenges. It's a story about resilience, familial bonds, and the journey toward personal healing and rediscovery.
When war is declared, Frances & Ralph, both pacifists, turn their house into a sanctuary for friends more involved. Invasion seems imminent as one by one the countries of Europe fall to the Nazis. People are even told to immobilise their car engines at night in case the Germans parachute into Britain.
RACHEL'S HOLIDAY, Marian's classic novel about addiction, is being given a new lease of life with a fantastic new jacket treatment. Here's Rachel Walsh, twenty-seven and the miserable owner of size 8 feet. She has regular congress with Luke Costello, a man who wears his leather trousers tight. And she's fond - some might say too fond - of recreational drugs. Until she finds herself being frogmarched to the Cloisters - Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She's outraged. Surely she's not thin enough to be an addict? Heartsick and Luke-sick, she seeks redemption in the shape of Chris, a Man with a Past. A man who might be more trouble than he's worth.
'I'd always lived a fairly blameless life. Up until the day I left my husband and ran away to Hollywood'. Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done everything right. At thirty-three she has a proper job, is happily married to Garv and never puts a foot wrong. So why does she make a bolt for Hollywood and her best friend, Emily? In the City of Angels, Maggie gets to do things she's never done mixing with film stars, pitching scripts, partying non-stop. But is this really a once-in-a-lifetime journey of self-discovery, or is she simply running away from married life?
International bestseller Keyes is back with another quirky, heartwarming story of the Walsh sisters. Written in her classic style and marrying the darker parts of life with humor and wit, this novel is a wonderfully charming look at love here and ever after.
Meet Helen, youngest of the Walsh sisters, black sheep of the family and a law unto herself. She was sacked from every job she ever had before she found her true calling as a private investigator. But times are tough for PIs and Helen's had no choice but to take on the case of missing boyband has-been Wayne Diffney.