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Some families warm your heart. Lizzy’s makes her head spin.

 

Home. For most it’s a place of calm and safety. For Lizzy Walter, things are a bit more complicated. Keeper House – a cherished old place deep in the countryside – has always been the heart of the Walter’s universe. There, Lizzy can escape from her London life and ease her heart and mind. But trouble is on the horizon.

 

For a start, her entire family are hiding something. Then the Love of Her Life makes an unexpected reappearance – just when she thought she was starting to get over him. And now Keeper House itself is in peril. By the time the Walters gather for a summer wedding, the stakes have never been higher – for Lizzy, for her family and for love…

 

A gorgeous reissue of the warm and enchanting bestselling novel.

 

Laura Foster is a hopeless romantic. It is her most endearing characteristic, yet consistently leads her into trouble. Friends and family look on with amused tolerance – until Laura’s inability to tell reality from romantic dreams causes betrayal and a broken heart.

 

Taking refuge in Norfolk, Laura is bitterly aware that her rose-tinted glasses have to go. She swears off men, and all things romantic, for good – until she meets Nick, the estate manager of a huge stately home. But Nick has a secret too. And it’s one that Laura, however much she tries, can’t get past her prejudice about.

 

Just as she was stubbornly a die-hard romantic, so Laura is stubborn about there being no future for her and Nick. But will he manage to change her mind?

 

Three Lives. Three Loves. Three Reasons to Let Go – the compelling new novel from the international No.1 bestselling author



Izzie Silver left the small Irish town of Tamarin behind for New York. Life is good – until she breaks her own rules and falls for a married man.

On the other side of the ocean, Izzie’s aunt Anneliese discovers the pain of infidelity for herself.

 

Then Lily, the wise and compassionate family matriarch, is taken ill. At her bedside back in Ireland, Izzie discovers a past her grandmother has never spoken of, while Anneliese feels despair mount. The one person she could have turned to is starting to slip away.

 

The lessons each of the women learns – both past and present – bring joy and heartbreak. And the hardest lesson of all is learning to let go.

Every woman needs her Cathy Kelly time

 

When life is full of changes, your friends are the ones who really count…

 

Ingrid Fitzgerald is flying high. A successful TV presenter, she’s happily married with two wonderful children. But as they fly the nest, she’s about to discover a secret that will shatter her world.

 

Natalie Flynn is falling in love – but the secrecy surrounding her mother’s past still troubles her. Dare she ask the questions that could help her make sense of her life?

 

Charlie Fallon loves her family and her job at Kenny’s Department Store, but her eccentric mother is growing more demanding. Could now be the time to fight for her own happiness?

 

The woman with the power to help them is free spirit Star Bluestone. Experience tells her that the important things in life must be treasured and the chance for real joy comes only once in a lifetime…Warm, captivating storytelling from the heart – treat yourself to some Cathy Kelly time.

Eleanor Levine left Ireland seventy years ago with little more than a suitcase and her mother’s handwritten recipe book. Now, a lifetime later, she’s returning from New York with hard won wisdom and memories of her own. A renowned psychoanalyst, Eleanor knows there’s one final journey she has to make…

 

Lovely young actress Megan Bouchier didn’t have to chase success – it arrived effortlessly. Fame was what she always wanted until a disastrous affair made her the wrong kind of headlines – now Megan needs a place to hide…

 

Darkly beautiful Rae is a wonderful wife, a loyal friend and a dedicated community carer. From Titania’s Tea Rooms she dispenses tea and sympathy to everyone – until a painful secret from her past threatens everything she holds dear.

Big-hearted teacher Connie O’Callaghan has given up on love. She’s cheerfully approaching forty and besides, why does no man ever match the heroes in her beloved romantic novels?

 

As Eleanor re-reads her mother’s comforting words and watches life unfold from her window in Dublin’s pretty Golden Square, she slowly becomes drawn into the lives of Megan, Rae and Connie. But can treasured wisdom handed down from mother to daughter really be relevant today? And what are the ingredients for a life well lived…?

Like every woman, Kate thought she’d never meet the love of her life… Until she did. But are they destined to be together?

 

Kate Miller has lived in New York for three long years. Now, with her father ill, it’s time to come home and face everything she left behind…

 

Her friends: Zoe and Francesca, bound to her forever as a result of one day when life changed for them all.

 

Her family: her adored father and his much younger wife.

 

The job: she abandoned on a glossy women’s magazine.

 

And, the man she thought was the love of her life, whose heart she has broken.

 

What really happened before Kate left London? And can she pick up the pieces and allow herself to love life again?

 

A modern day love story jam-packed with humour, hurt, hope and happiness – so unputdownable you’ll cancel your Friday night out to keep reading.

Rich, witty and moving, I Remember You is for anyone who likes to dream about a new life – and for anyone who still remembers their first love…

For Tess Tennant, spring brings the promise of a fresh start. She’s moving back to her picture-perfect home town to take up a teaching job. Langford is a place of pretty stone cottages, friendly locals in oak-beamed pubs and of course Adam, her best friend since childhood. But Adam is preoccupied with a new girlfriend, and the past – which Tess thought she’d put behind her – is looming large again.

So by the time she has to take her class on a trip to Rome, Tess is feeling reckless. She is swept off her feet by a mysterious stranger, and finds herself falling in love. But her magical Roman Holiday is about to turn into a nightmare…

Back in Langford Adam is gone and everything has changed.Tess has to decide, once and for all, where she belongs and with whom.

Four very different women are drawn together in the warm and engaging new novel by the bestselling author of JUST BETWEEN US.

 

Good times or bad, friends are always there…

 

In the beautiful town of Dunmore, four women understand what friendship really means. Abby’s TV career is taking off, but her marriage to Tom is rocky. Meanwhile, her teenage daughter Jess despairs of ever finding a boyfriend. Lizzie has time for everyone: her grown-up children, her friends, even her ex-husband Myles, but never for herself. And then there’s Erin, married and back in Ireland after eight years in Chicago. But can she face up to her past?

 

When tragedy strikes, it rocks the small town. Drawn together in their sadness, the four women realise that life is for living, and they need to grab it with both hands…

From the bestselling author of SOMEONE LIKE YOU and WHAT SHE WANTS comes an uplifting novel about how three very different women cope with the complexities of their lives – relationships, careers, and families – to find fulfilment.

 

Full of Cathy Kelly’s trademark warmth, romance, optimism and wit.

 

In the Irish country town of Kinvara, the fabulous MIller girls are generally reckoned to have it all… There’s Stella with the looks of a Renaissance Madonna and a brilliant lawyer’s mind. A single mum who has combined work and raising her daughter with aplomb, the only thing missing from her life is the right man. Now, at last, she’s going to get a second chance…

 

Tara is the sharp, cool one. At the top of her TV career, she’s recently married the love of her life, the charming Finn, after a whirlwind romance of just six months.

 

And shy, beautiful Holly is living a bohemian life that all her old classmates envy, with artistic friends and a beautiful apartment where her creative talents find an outlet.

 

At the centre of the family is their mother, Rose, calm, elegant and about to celebrate her fortieth wedding. But nothing in the lives of Rose and her daughters is as it seems, and as plans are made for the party of the decade, the secret heartaches the four women have kept hidden, even from the each other, begin to emerge. Are they strong enough to deal with the truth about their golden lives?

The women of Summer Street have their fair share of secrets and soon learn that if you keep a secret too long it will creep out when you least expect it…

 

Keep a secret too long and it will creep out when you least expect it…

 

Behind the shining windows and rose-bedecked gardens of Summer Street, there are lots of secrets. There’s the one that hard-working single mother, Faye, hides from her teenage daughter, Amber. And there’s the one that thirty-year-old Maggie hides from herself.

 

When fiery Amber decides to throw away her future for love, and when Maggie ends up back home looking after her sick mother, their secrets begin to bubble over.

 

The only person on Summer Street who appears to know all the answers is their friend Christie. Wise and kind, she can see into other people’s hearts to solve their problems. Except that this time, the secrets she’s hidden from her beloved husband and grown up sons suddenly reappear. When the past comes alive for Maggie, Faye and Christie, they finally have to face it.

The author of the bestselling Someone Like You introduces us to four new special women in a warm and funny novel about facing change in our lives.

 

Do you know what you’ll be doing next year? Nicole, Virginia, Hope and Sam all thought they did.

 

Hope Parker imagined that she’d be slogging it out as a working mum, trying to fit  in quality time with her young children, and doing her best not to burn her husband, Matt’s dinner.

 

Her sister, Sam Jones, thought she’d be turning heads in her new job as a managing director of a record label, climbing to very top of the career ladder and having her photo emblazoned on the business pages as the toughest, most brilliant company boss around.

 

Wild child Nicole Turner reckoned that she’d still be going for wild party nights with the girls, maybe singing a bit of karaoke, possibly snogging a guy here or there, and trying not to get fired for using the office phone to make personal phone calls.

And grandmother Virginia Connell thought she’d still be happily married to her beloved Bill, teasing him for spending too much time on the golf course and not enough time walking the dog or cutting the grass.

 

But they were all wrong. When life changes suddenly for each of these four women, they have to look deep inside themselves to discover what they really want in order to survive the turmoil. And they discover that a sense of belonging, a loving family and good friends can make all the difference.

A compelling and heartbreaking tale of lost love, family secrets and those little moments that can change your life for ever.

 

Returning to the wild Cornish coast for the funeral of her beloved grandmother, Natasha has no idea of how things are about to change. This trip reunites her with her large and complicated family for perhaps the last time: Summercove, her grandparents’ beautiful house by the sea, is being sold. With it go a generation of memories and the key to the death, many years ago, of fifteen-year-old Cecily, her aunt, a tragedy that no one ever discusses.

 

When she finds the opening pages of Cecily’s diary, written the summer she died, Natasha discovers the family she idealised has secrets that have long been buried.

But where is the rest of the diary?

 

Back in London, trying to rebuild her own life, Natasha is haunted by Cecily’s writing and the tragic tale of love, rivalry and heartbreak promised in those scant pages. She has to know what happened, the summer her aunt died. And so she makes some life-changing decisions – and in the process finds out that a second chance at love might be possible…

 

Absorbing storytelling at its very best – the compelling novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

 

You can t escape the ties that bind. The past catches up with you no matter how far you try to run…

 

This is a story of a girl who doesn t believe in happy endings. Or happy families. It s the story of Eleanor Bee, a shy, book-loving girl who vows to turn herself into someone bright, shiny and confident, someone sophisticated. Someone who knows how life works.

 

But life has a funny way of catching us unawares. Turns out that Elle doesn t know everything about love. Or life. Or how to keep the ones we love safe….

 

Absorbing, poignant and unforgettable, Happily Ever After is a compelling story of a fractured family and a girl who doesn t believe in love.

 

If you don’t learn from history …

You’re destined to repeat it

 

Not without you, she’d said. And I’d let her down…

 

Hollywood, 1961: when beautiful, much-loved movie star Eve Noel vanishes at the height of her fame, no-one knows where, much less why.

 

Fifty years later, another young British actress, Sophie Leigh, lives in Eve’s house high in the Hollywood Hills. Eve Noel was her inspiration and Sophie, disenchanted with her life in LA, finds herself becoming increasingly obsessed with the mystery of her idol’s disappearance. And the more she finds out, the more she realises Eve’s life is linked with her own.

 

As Eve’s tragic past and the present start to collide, Sophie needs to unravel the truth to save them both – but is she already too late? Becoming increasingly entangled in Eve’s world, Sophie must decide whose life she is really living…

 

Four women must face their past before they can look to the future…

 

In the sleepy Irish coastal town of Avalon the big house on Willow Street has stood for generations…

Tess Power grew up there, but now, from her cosy cottage shared with teenage son Zach and nine-year-old Kitty, Tess faces a crumbling marriage and a dwindling antiques business.

 

Tess’s feisty sister Suki shook Avalon’s dust off her feet years ago but when she unwittingly becomes the focus of a dirt-digging biographer, Suki looks to her sister and the town/place she vowed to forget…

 

Lively, exuberant  Mara seeks the sanctuary of Avalon and her solitary Aunt Danae to put her life and her newly married ex behind her.  As the village post-mistress, Danae can always be relied upon – but beneath her gentle exterior, she guards her past as carefully as Avalon’s letters and secrets.

 

But the big house is up for sale….and with it its memories, especially for Cashel, who returns to the town for the first time in many years with the ghosts of the distant past – and the woman he swore to forget – still haunting him.

Can she find the strength to help the family she never knew she had?

 

Vibrant and warm, Frankie manages people as a career – so her husband’s silence on redundancy comes as a shock. Suddenly both their dream house project in pretty Redstone and their marriage are under terrible strain.

 

Only twenty-seven, Peggy is opening her own knitting shop in town but her past threatens to unravel any prospect of love and a family of her own.

 

Lillie is the friend they both need. Newly arrived in the small Irish town from Australia, she’s no stranger to secrets and heartache. Wrapped in the warmth of the community, Lillie must help herself and her new friends rediscover the joy in life…

Cathy Kelly has created her first collection of heart-warming short stories. Christmas Magic is full of charming and witty tales of life, love and the everyday dilemmas that we all face, all told in Cathy’s unique voice.

 

From Dolores and Genevieve, two spinster sisters who must finally break free from their mother’s powerful personality, to Alice, who is facing having to open her home and her heart to the one visitor that she doesn’t want this Christmas, from a captivating family story triggered by a letter to Lily’s disastrous arrival at her best friend’s wedding, these are stories to make you laugh, cry and nod in recognition.

 

Relax and unwind in front of a roaring fire and indulge yourself in these, and many other humorous and uplifting tales. Remember that Christmas comes but once a year, so let the magic reel you in…

An absorbing and romantic Quick Read from the Sunday Times bestselling author.

Do you believe in happy endings?

Laura Foster used to be a hopeless romantic. She was obsessed with meeting her own Prince Charming until she grew up and realised real life doesn’t work like that.

Then she met Nick. A romantic hero straight from a fairytale, with a grand country estate and a family tree to match.

They’ve been together four years now and Laura knows that what really matters is the two of them, not everything else around them. She can’t imagine ever loving anyone the way she loves Nick.

Now, though, people are openly asking when they’ll hear wedding bells, and Nick is keeping secrets from Laura. She’s starting to feel she might not be ‘good enough’ for his family.

Can an ordinary girl like Laura make it work with one of the most eligible men in the country?

The warm and engaging new novel from the bestselling author of BEST OF FRIENDS.

 

Fairy godmothers do exist, even in the tranquil hills of Ireland…

 

Once upon a time, in the beautiful town of Carrickwell, lived three women whose lives were mapped out: Ambitious Mel would have her career and her family; caring Daisy a child with the boyfriend who is everything to her; and hot-headed Cleo would finish her degree and step into the family hotel business.

 

Until the landscape shifted and it all came tumbling down.

 

But Carrickwell, nestled in the shadows of Mount Carraig, is an ancient, magical place. And when Leah, a woman with her own secret turmoil, opens the Clouds Hill spa, Mel, Daisy and Cleo are thrown together – and find the courage to discover what really matters to them, always and forever…

An exploration and discussion of the relationship between man and woman. Couples talk about the intimate details of their relationship and express their innermost feelings. Carl Rogers is the innovator of client-centred therapy. In this book he takes an objective position.

To anyone interested in psychology or sociology or politics or morality, Rogers will give a new dimension of awareness. The Month