'An engaging, emotionally-charged and intriguing story' Michelle GormanOn a normal day, in a normal house, on a normal street, wife and mother Fran has had enough.She packs a case, leaves a note for her bullying husband Pete, and one for her beloved twenty-year-old son Harry, and heads to the airport - and freedom.In another house, on another street, Helena is desperately baiting her husband Jack into a fight. These days it feels like the...

A gripping, emotional read from Amanda BrookfieldPraise for Amanda Brookfield:'A poignant, engrossing novel and a gripping emotional rollercoaster.'- Helen McGinn'The queen of powerful, psychological drama at the top of her game. An exquisitely-written, tenderly-observed, absolute roller-coaster of emotions into the enduring power of sibling bonds trying to survive, to live and love. I laughed, I cried, One I recommend from the bottom of ...

'No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield.' The MirrorShortlisted for The People's Book PrizeWho can you trust with your darkest secrets...Everyone that meets Kat Keating is mesmerised. Beautiful, smart and charming, she is everything a good girl should be.Her sister Eleanor, on the other hand, knows she can't compete with Kat. On the awk...

A heartbreaking, relatable read from Amanda Brookfield

The Harrison family gathers as usual for Christmas in their big Sussex house.This year, however, outside realities are pressing hard: Pamela and John, married for four decades, know that time is catching up with them. And trouble is brewing in the lives of their four children.Cassie, the cossetted youngest, is in the throes of an affair with a married man; Elizabeth, her awkward older sister, is struggling with a faltering second marriage; Peter, the eldest and designated...

'No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield.' The MirrorEver since the death of their father twenty years before, beautiful thirty-two-year-old Anna has acted as her younger sister Becky’s support, playing the peace-maker in her stormy relationship with their mother, and counselling her through the traumas of a life that has always appeared charmless and problematic in comparison to her own.Now married to wealthy, handsome David La...

‘The novel walks a line between comedy and wrenching sadness. It is fluently written and its depiction of domestic chaos … is all too recognisable’ Sunday Times A Family Man tells the story of thirty one year old Matt Webster, who arrives home from work one day to find that his wife, Kath, has walked out, leaving him to care for their four year old son. Shock and hurt are compounded by the challenge of suddenly having to juggle work with being a single parent. ...

'No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield' The Mirror'In the weeks that followed, Jane did her best not to think about anything very much. Usually, it worked. But every so often she would freeze, and tremble at the terrifying realisation that she wanted to leave her husband.'While many regard her marriage with admiration and a touch of envy, Jane Lytton quietly reaches the shocking conclusion that her re...

A heart-wrenching family drama, perfect for fans of Erica James, Elizabeth Noble, Joanna Trollope and Anita Shreve! A splintered childhood.A family divided.An ugly past resurfaces…From birth, twins Cath and Rob are inseparable. When their mother dies, their bond deepens as their father hastily remarries a woman with a volatile temper whose sole focus is her own baby – Oliver – who arrives nine months later.When, aged 47, Rob tragic...

If ‘Life Begins at Forty’, then Charlotte Turner's not off to the best of starts.On top of a recent divorce, and trouble with her twelve-year-old son, the husband of her closest friend has just started to show a bit too much interest in her as a newly-single woman.But only when Charlotte has faced up to some uncomfortable truths about her past can she finally shed the unhappy skin she's been so comfortable in and open up her life – and her heart – to all the promise and p...

The heart-breaking page-turner from bestselling author Amanda Brookfield Perfect for fans of Erica James, Elizabeth Noble and Joanna Trollope!Would you swap houses with a family of strangers? The price you pay might be greater than you think...Sophie and Andrew are looking for relief from the daily grind - if not each other - so when a friend puts them in touch with William and Beth, newlyweds looking to swap houses for the summer, it sounds like a great idea.