Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. The fact that this woman has a 'neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb' is no consolatio
The classic, beloved children's novel about the sour Mary Lennox who is sent from India as an orphan to live at her uncle Archibald Craven's isolated manor. After hearing stories of a locked garden an
The third Barsetshire novel is a sparkling 1930s English romantic comedy, perfect for fans of Stella Gibbons, PG Wodehouse, or EF Benson Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of
Noted for the acuity with which she reaches into the heart of relationships, Nina Bawden here excels in revealing the painful, intimate truths of a family in crisis The expulsion from school of their
In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory is painfully involved wi
Frost in May is the novel which launched the Virago Modern Classics list. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.
'I was now an established citizen with little hope of returning across the frontier; I was in the crazy world, separated now by more than locked doors and barred windows from the people who called the
