Catherine Alliott
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Family secrets revealed, unannounced house guests, a husband's wandering eye, and an old love affair to boot...so much for Flora's luxurious escape to the chateau in the South of France.
When Flora, James, and their two teenage daughters are, offered the holiday of a lifetime in a chateau in the south of France in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance. They exchange the confines of London, the weight of the mortgage, and anxieties...
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Annie O'Harran is getting married . . . all over again
A divorced, single mum, Annie is about to tie the knot with David. But there's a long summer to get through first. A summer where's she's retreating to a lonely house in Cornwall, where's she's going to finish her book, spend time with her teenage daughter Flora and make any last-minute wedding plans.
Annie should be so lucky.
For almost as soon as Annie arrives her competitive sister and her...
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Evie Hamilton has a secret . . . one she doesn't even know about. Yet . . .
Evie's an Oxfordshire wife and mum who's biggest worry in life is whether or not she can fit in a manicure on her way to fetch her daughter from clarinet lessons. But she's blissfully unaware that her charmed and happy life is about to be turned upside-down.
For one sunny morning a letter lands on Evie's immaculate doormat. It's a bombshell, knocking her carefully arranged...
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The immensely funny and heartwarming number one bestseller, tells the story of a woman who gets a second chance in life - but will she have the courage to take it?
Molly has traded London for a dream home in the country - except it was her husband's dream, not hers. And David is, well, rather dead now.
So when a distant relative leaves her a London townhouse, Molly is ready to quit 'The Good Life' and return to *her *good life.
But there's a rather...
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Catherine Alliott's brilliantly warm and funny take on taking control of your life, in Olivia's Luck.
'I don't care what color you paint the sodding hall. I'm leaving.'
When her husband Johnny suddenly walks out on ten years of marriage, their ten-year-old daughter and the crumbling house they're up to their eyeballs renovating, Olivia is at first totally devastated. How could he? How could she not have noticed his unhappiness?
But she's not one to...
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One day in May, Hattie's life changes for ever . . .
Hattie Carrington has good reason to be happy. Her antiques business is flourishing, her teenage son is settled at school and she's enjoying a fling with a sexy, younger man. But when work takes her back to the village of Little Crandon, heartbreaking memories of her first love surface.
It seems that the secret affair with married politician Dominic Forbes, which changed the course of her life,...
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Til death do us part jut might cause you to wring someone's neck... Imogen Cameron can't quite figure out how she and her husband, Alex, have plummeted from living in their beloved London townhouse to scraping by in his ex-girlfriend's guest cottage. But although the scenic pastures might inspire her flagging artistic career, and getting out of the city might do their son good, Imogen wonders if all the country air in the world could calm the crowds...
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"Oh how I enjoyed this! Yet another fabulous book, packed with glamour, delicious characters and myriad family complications!" Jill Mansell, bestselling author of This Could Change Everything Flora's been in love with her husband for twenty years. The trouble is, he's been married to someone else for the past fifteen . . . Now she's been invited to spend the summer in the shady lanes and sandy coves of Cornwall. It should be blissful.There's just...
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From the outside, anyone would think that Lucy Palmer has it all: loving children, a dashing husband and a gorgeous home.But when her marriage to Michael comes to an abrupt and unexpected end, her life is turned upside down in a flash.As the truth of her marriage threatens to surface, Lucy seizes the opportunity to swap her house in London - and the stories it hides - for a rural escape to her parents' farmhouse in the Chilterns.But Lucy gets more...
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Finding true love's a piece of cake - as long as you're looking for someone else's true love . . .
Polly McLaren is young, scatty and impossibly romantic. She works for an arrogant and demanding boss, and has a gorgeous if never-there-when-you-need-him boyfriend. But the day a handsome stranger recognizes her old school scarf, her life is knocked completely off kilter.
Adam is American, new to the country and begs Polly's help in finding his missing...
11) The Real Thing
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Every girl's got one - that old boyfriend they never quite fell out of love with . . .
Tessa Hamilton's thirty, with a lovely husband and home, two adorable kids, and not a care in the world. Sure her husband ogles the nanny more than she should allow. And keeping up with the Joneses is a full-time occupation. But she's settled and happy. No seven-year itch for Tessa.
Except at the back of her mind is Patrick Cameron. Gorgeous, moody, rebellious,...
12) The Pink House
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Get ready to fall in love with - home of the new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Catherine Alliott 'An absolute joy. How I longed to live in the Pink House! Wise, funny, glamorously chaotic and achingly romantic' – VERONICA HENRY 'That dreamy pink house, the orchard, left wild with paths mown...
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Family secrets revealed, unannounced house guests, a husband's wandering eye, and an old love affair to boot... so much for Flora's luxurious escape to the chateau in the South of France.
When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in a chateau in the south of France in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance. They exchange the confines of London, the weight of the mortgage, and anxieties...
14) Going Too Far
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You've gone all fat and complacent because you've got your man, haven't you? Polly Penhalligan is outraged at the suggestion that since getting married to Nick and settling into their beautiful manor farmhouse in Cornwall she has let herself go. But watching a lot of telly and gorging on biscuits, not getting dressed until lunchtime and waiting for pregnancy to strike are not the signs of someone living an active and fulfilled life. So, Polly does...
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Separated in every way but distance, Sebastian resides in a guest cottage across the lawn from Ella's ramshackle farmhouse.
When Ella married the handsome, celebrated artist Sebastian Montclair at just nineteen she was madly in love. Now, those blissful years of marriage have turned into the very definition of an unconventional set-up.
With an ex-husband living under her nose and a home crowded by hostile teenaged children, gender-confused chickens,...