Oh William!The Pulitzer Prize winning, Booker longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in life Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband and

she thinks she may have found the key to securing their future

A secret that someone will kill to keep

A festive collection to make readers stop and think about the nuanced difference between expectation - false and hopeful - and reality

Reading his prose is like running a slow hand down cold silk

Kydd's newfound ambition fuels his desire to be at the forefront of the hunt

He has come across some obscene photos

But he soon finds himself in a fight for his life in the colonies

in decades

But when she is unexpectedly named in the will of a powerful Chinese stranger

A broken window and missing emerald necklace suggest that it is a burglary gone wrong

Delivering the same intensity of pace and storytelling that made THE LAST THING TO BURN a word-of-mouth sensation

which means getting close to a convicted rapist