Also by Jo Verity
Sweets from Morocco
978 1 906784 00 3
£7.99
Tessa and Lewis are unnerved by the arrival of baby brother Gordon disrupting their perfect childhood. Something must be done. Secretly they construct an effigy of the interloper and transport it to a phone box at the edge of town. They don’t wish the baby dead, just gone… But when Gordon does disappear, it blights the lives of the whole Swinburne family.
Coming to terms with the past doesn’t get any easier with the years, and the ties binding Tessa and Lewis grow tighter and tighter as their secret stalks them into middle age.
‘A richly detailed and absorbing narrative journey’
Andrew Cowan
Bells
978 1870206 877
£6.99
Jack has fun playing away – not with loose women, but as part of a Morris dancing team. But when a gig is cancelled and he falls for the young woman behind the desk at The Welcome Stranger, he is launched into a world of love-struck subterfuge.
Meanwhile, his wife, Fay, rashly offers a home to one of her son’s ex-bandmates just days before she’s forced to house her frail but argumentative mother-in-law. To top it all, she’s in the throes of an illicit passion for her best friend’s handsome son.
Will Jack and Fay’s marriage survive the promise of new and exotic liaisons? Will the chime of Morris bells turn a woman’s head in the days of iPods?
‘Excellent’ The Bookseller
Everything in the Garden
978 1870206 709
£6.99
When Anna and Tom Wren join together with three other couples to buy a rambling farmhouse in Wales, the intention is to grow old with the support of tried and trusted friends. But life turns out not to be the bed of roses Anna had imagined. As she teeters on the brink of an affair, the relationships that have shaped her life begin to crumble and she is forced to confront the changing nature of her own desires and the consequences of giving in.
Also published by Honno
Two Times Twenty by Bethan Darwin
Anna’s got a significant birthday coming up, but confronting one of your closest friends with her infidelity isn’t the best way to make the event go with a swing. Love is never perfect, as Anna knows only too well…
‘Chatty, frank and witty’ Western Mail
978 1 906784 23 2
£8.99
Back Home by Bethan Darwin
Ellie is broken hearted and so decamps home. Tea and sympathy from grandad Trevor help, as does the distracting and hunky Gabriel, then a visitor turns Trevor’s world upside down.
‘A modern woman’s romantic confession, alongside a cleverly unfolding story of long-buried family secrets’
Abigail Bosanko
978 1 906784 0 34
£7.99
The War Before Mine by Caroline Ross
A brief wartime romance leaves Rosie heartbroken and pregnant, not knowing if Philip – on a suicide mission designed to stop the Nazi invasion – is alive or dead.
‘A versatile and sensitive chronicler of the world at war’
Sunday Telegraph
978 1 870206 9 76
£6.99