Stepmother'Euripides said 'better a serpent than a stepmother.' For a moment, you like the idea of being a single line, winding around everything you touch. A vine.' 'Brave, graceful and absolutely vital Mort shoulders away the old trope of the stepmother and replaces her with a host of humane women' SARAH HALL, author of Helm When a new relationship casts poet Helen Mort in the role of stepmother, she embarks on a personal quest for understanding; moving

before he found fame and fortune alongside Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse on the BBC hit series 'Gone Fishing'

Road-tripping around Alicante

change your habits and transform your life

often pain-racked man

and Dawn is a young mother - just beginning to adjust to life in her husband's house rather than her parents' - when Hazel breezes into her life like a torch in the dark

Lexie carves out a new life for herself at the heart of bohemian 1950s Soho

Orphan Anne has always dreamed of being part of a proper family

and worst of all

can a love born within the feverish walls of the Babylon Circus ever survive

But when Kelda finds a death mask concealed behind one of the walls

Dame Harriet Walter

Lynette must embark on a desperate odyssey of hope and anguish