Susan Sallis

When the news of the death of her ex-husband reaches Binnie....

Cornwall, 1960, and a whole new world for young Connie Vickers as she holidays with her brand-new fiance William....

Gussie, Ned, and Jannie are not quite siblings, but they share a fiercely close and affectionate family bond....

Viv's marriage to David was not a conventional one, but when he died - in an accident for which she blamed herself - it was as if her whole world had collapsed around her....

Judith is suddenly all alone in the world. Her husband, Jack, has left her - why, she doesn't really know. Her two sons are in Australia, and both her mother and her best friend Naomi have recently died....

There were four of the Thorpe family in the Anderson shelter the night of the raid on Coventry. Mum and Dad, Florrie and little May....

Doubts about Felix, and fears for her daughter left at home, sap her confidence and judgement. The voyage from Tangier to Nice becomes fraught with danger and is indeed through troubled waters.....