Hilary Boyd
1) The affair
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English
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It started in Lake Como, where it should have ended ? Connie McGabe longs for the summers where she leads tours across Europe. But it?s on the glamorous shores of Lake Como that she is truly swept away, when Jared, a much younger man, falls for her. Despite resisting his advances, Connie finds that he?s got under her skin. And so begins a long, hot, intoxicating summer where Connie succumbs and breaks her marriage vows. At the end of the season Connie...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Jeanie has been a loving wife for over thirty years, but every Thursday, Jeanie takes her granddaughter to the park, and there she meets Ray, who performs the same weekly duty for his grandson. Ray seems to be everything George isn't - a listener, easy to talk to, open-minded and sexy.
Author
Publisher
W.F. Howes
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Divorced from her famous classical composer husband Christopher, it seems as though Nancy's fate is to quietly wait out the rest of her life, gradually shouldering more and more of the burden of responsibility for all three generations. Then, at a rare evening out, she meets Jim. Smoker, drinker, unsuccessful country singer and sporter of both cowboy boots and a ponytail, he seems distinctly unsuited to the very together Nancy. And yet, there is a...
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Publisher
Lamplight Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Stella's marriage ended decades ago, after the event that not only shattered her life with her husband, Jack, but shaped her relationship with her daughter, Eve, too. Now, despite the tensions that linger between mother and daughter, Stella is called upon to look after Eve in her time of need. She just hadn't bargained on being thrown together with her handsome, stubborn ex-husband too - who reminds her so disturbingly of the past. Just as tragedy...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When pillar-of-the-community Harry Stewart dies of a sudden heart attack, the whole village is devastated - except for his maligned wife Karen, the only one who really knew the abusive alcoholic he had become. Suddenly freed from her oppressive marriage, Karen is nonetheless wracked with guilt about her final argument with her husband, and sees the presence of her spoiled step-daughter, Sophia, as a suitable purgatory. Her only comfort in her grief...