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The best kind of summers are those spent with friends... Sit back, relax and enjoy this irresistible collection of exclusive opening chapters from your favourite authors. Perfect for reading in the garden, on the beach or in the bath, this gorgeous collection will bring the warmth of summer into your life, whatever the weather.... Featuring Harriet Evans, Emylia Hall, Emma Hannigan, Kathryn Hug...

Damaged and beautiful, they were the generation who lost so much and became 'spare brides'. The richly compelling and emotional new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Adele Parks is the powerful story of four extraordinary women left to pick up the pieces of their lives, in the scarred, glamorous and endlessly fascinating post-First World War era. New Year's Eve, 1920. The G...

The Evergreen sisters are united in envy of each other's love life. Martha and Michael have the perfect home, perfect family and the perfect life until one day, he leaves her. Eliza and Greg rent a one-bedroom flat where they make music and lots of love. Until one day, she leaves him. Now the Evergreen sisters are united by separation and suddenly they are free to pursue the relationships a...

How do you know when you've met the one you're meant to be with? Neil and Nat are a match made in heaven. They hate marmite and the opera. They love smelly cheese and the missionary position. And they both absolutely do not want children. At least that's what Nat thought. But now Neil seems to have softened to the prospect of dirty nappies and sleepless nights, and he's pract...

Lucy stole her friend Rose's 'happily ever after' because she wanted Rose's husband, Peter, and Lucy always gets what she wants. Big mistake. Rose was the ideal wife and is the ideal mother; Lucy was the perfect mistress. Connie - best friend to both Lucy and Rose - is stuck in the middle. She's got Lucy's worries about being wife, mother and career bitch in one ear and Rose's struggle at be...

After her father walked out on her and her mother, Cas Perry decides that relationships aren't worth the heartache. She ruthlessly manipulates everyone she comes into contact with, uil she meets Darren. He believes in love, marriage, fidelity and constany, but can he believe in Cas?

Adele Parks' Playing Away is founded on that well-worn adage: the grass is always greener. Connie and Luke have been married a year and they're both ecstatically happy. Or are they? The reader quickly realises that Connie isn't short for Constancy. Away on a business trip, her loins irrepressibly draw her to the devilishly attractive John Harding and she rushes headlong into a heate...

Tash and Rich are newly engaged and wild about each other. They can't wait to celebrate their wedding with their closest friends, all of whom have known each other since university, where they enjoyed a hedonistic whirl of parties, popularity, sex and success. But is fun really as easy-come-easy-go in your thirties as it was in your twenties? How do relationships change once you leave college an...

Georgina fell in love with Hugh Williams the first moment she saw him. She was eighteen. He was out of her league. So she reinvented herself and now, at thirty-two, she has him. The fact that he got married and had two kids in the meantime is not important. At least, all this is what George has always believed. Until something happens, so momentous, so life-changing, that even her rock-s...

From bestselling author Adele Parks comes a touching story about the ups and downs of love, marriage and family. Published as part of the Quick Reads series. Lisa is forty-two, divorced and a mum of three. For the past year, she has been going out with Mark, who is five years younger than her. Lisa really likes him but she worries that one day he will leave - just like her ex-husband did. On top o...