In 1960s Memphis, a young mother finds refuge in a boardinghouse where family encompasses more than just blood, and hidden truths can bury you or set you free. Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her...
The woman in the portrait is perfect. So why does she feel so terrified, so alone? Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de’ Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will, wondering at its treasures and...
1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Aziziye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria. ‘An emerald built of pink stone’. The 29th state of the ailing Ottoman Empire. The ship carries Princess...
A dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people – from the international bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction Sometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship...
‘From what is it they flee?’ He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, ‘They killed the King.’ 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe,...
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