Amanda Prowse Books in Order

When her husband is taken hostage in Afghanistan, hairdresser Poppy Day refuses to wait helplessly at home. Her desperate attempt to bring him back becomes a bruising test of love, courage, and how much one woman can risk.

This festive novella turns on longing, family feeling, and the quiet hopes people carry into Christmas. Amanda Prowse keeps it warm but honest, with just enough emotional ache to make the holiday glow matter.

Pru Plum seems elegant, successful, and entirely in control at her famous Mayfair bakery. But as love finally arrives late in life, old secrets and old guilt threaten to spoil the future she wants most.

In 1961 London, eighteen-year-old Dot falls hard for Sol, a young West Indian soldier. Their love offers colour and freedom, but the world around them is hostile, and choosing each other could cost Dot everything she knows.

A sharp early novella about the rules people make inside love, and the damage done when one person starts treating a relationship like something to win. Short, tense, and emotionally pointed.

Kathryn Brooker looks like the woman who has everything, until the truth behind her marriage starts to show. Trapped by control and fear, she reaches a point where saving her children may mean blowing up the life everyone envies.

Meg wants to give her young son the perfect Christmas, even if she has to do it alone. Then a chance encounter in New York unsettles all her careful plans and opens the door to romance.

A brief, emotional story about escape, possibility, and the pull of a life elsewhere. Amanda Prowse uses one small object, and one big choice, to ask what people are willing to leave behind for a fresh start.

Poppy Day is busy loving her family and barely noticing how exhausted she feels, until a frightening discovery changes everything. What follows is an intimate, heartbreaking story about illness, memory, and saying goodbye.

Jessica's fairy-tale marriage takes a terrifying turn after the birth of her daughter, when panic and shame begin to swallow her whole. This is one of Prowse's toughest, most compassionate novels about postnatal depression.

Jacks Morgan has spent years putting everyone else first, children, husband, and a mother with Alzheimer's. As her own dreams keep slipping away, she must ask whether sacrifice has a cost that her family cannot see.

Widowed Bea pours her grief into the Sydney deli she runs so well, until an email from Edinburgh draws her toward a forgotten love. Snow, travel, and second chances give this romance its gentle emotional pull.

Grace and Tom seem to have an ordinary happy life until sepsis steals their young daughter. Prowse turns that loss into a devastating novel about grief, survival, and the fragile work of carrying on.

Romilly's busy family life has been quietly taken over by alcohol, one glass at a time. As the drinking she has hidden for years comes into the light, she must face the addiction threatening to ruin everything she loves.

A short, emotional story about pregnancy, motherhood, and the complicated bonds that form around a child. Amanda Prowse keeps the setup intimate and the feelings messy, which is exactly where the drama lives.

A birthday gathering becomes the opening for old regrets, hidden feelings, and a little late-life change. It is a warm novella with the kind of emotional nudge Amanda Prowse does very well.

Rosie Tipcott thinks her small Devon life is full and happy, until her husband leaves her for another woman and takes the children. What follows is a raw, surprisingly funny story about rebuilding after abandonment.

Freya Braithwaite's warm family life begins to unravel when her daughter Lexi's struggle with weight turns into something far more dangerous. It is a painful, compassionate novel about anorexia and the helplessness of watching someone slip away.

Vivienne expects a quiet Bristol Christmas, then a wedding invitation pulls her and her best friend Ellen to New Zealand. Against a beautiful coast and a season of change, Viv must decide whether happiness might mean starting over.

This collection gathers Amanda Prowse's early novellas into one place. Expect short, emotional stories about love, family strain, regret, and the small turning points that can change a life.

After her husband's sudden death, Nina discovers that the luxurious life she trusted was built on lies and debt. Forced back to her old world, she has to learn how to stand on her own at last.

Lucy thinks a new marriage, good work, and the hope of a baby mean life is finally falling into place. But infertility, grief, and her stepdaughter's arrival push her toward questions she cannot ignore.

Anna Cole grows up in care and longs for a family she can finally call her own. When she meets Theo, love feels possible, but the damage both of them carry makes every hope look fragile.

Kitty's story broadens the world of Anna and Theo, moving through the Scottish Highlands, marriage, depression, and old wounds. It becomes a moving novel about whether love can still arrive after years of compromise.

Rachel wakes on her family's boat in Bermuda to every parent's nightmare, her young son is gone. In the grief that follows, marriage, home, and identity all come undone, and healing feels almost impossible.

A woman who has always shown up for everyone around her is finally pushed to ask whether her family will do the same for her. This one turns everyday loyalty into quietly painful drama.

The same central love story returns from Theo's side, and it looks different from here. Prowse uses his lonely, privileged upbringing to deepen the romance and show how badly the past can distort intimacy.

Prowse builds this novel around one hard question, how do you begin again after losing the only love you have ever known? It is a grief story, but one that keeps searching for light.

Thomasina Waycott has spent years believing her body and her circumstances have already decided her future. Then a strange, kind guest named Grayson makes her wonder whether love and possibility were never as far away as she thought.

Written with her son Josiah Hartley, this nonfiction book tells his experience of depression and the suicide attempt that shook their family. It is raw, compassionate, and deeply focused on what mental illness looks like from both sides.

A family secret changes everything when a woman is forced to confront the lies she grew up with and the mother she never truly knew. This is Prowse in full emotional-reckoning mode.

What looks ordinary from the outside holds years of compromise, longing, and quiet hurt in this intimate family drama. Prowse uses everyday life to show how much feeling can be hidden in plain sight.

Sophia leaves teaching to open a little bookshop, and one memorable customer changes the way she sees her new life. This gentle novella is about books, beginnings, and quiet wisdom arriving at just the right moment.

This volume brings together Amanda Prowse's early short fiction, collecting seven novellas in one place. It is a handy sampler of her emotional range, from love stories to family pain to late-found hope.

Amanda Prowse's picture story celebrates how one small act of kindness can travel much further than expected. It is a simple, warm reminder that a smile can brighten more than one day.

Bess has spent decades carrying the shame of a traumatic secret from 1984. As her marriage falters in the present day, she must finally face the past if she wants any chance of honesty, peace, or love.

Back in Linden Falls, another troubled heart arrives carrying old pain and fresh uncertainty. This warm entry in the shared world leans into hope, community, and the awkward courage it takes to ask for more.

After heartbreak and public humiliation blow apart her London life, Verity heads to Linden Falls with her daughter Sophie. In that small Vermont town, the wishing tree and its community offer the chance to begin again.

A relationship-centered novel about the difference between giving love and truly receiving it. Old hurts, family ties, and present-day choices push its characters to rethink what they have settled for.

In this candid memoir, Amanda Prowse writes about the first fifty-odd years of her life, including family, self-image, work, love, and the experiences that shaped both the woman and the novelist.

Daisy has always looked at the family next door and assumed they have the perfect life. Then one dramatic weekend forces her to see that envy, and other people's marriages, can hide more than they show.

Nora has given up expecting much happiness from life, but change has a way of arriving anyway. This is a hopeful, relationship-driven story about companionship, renewal, and joy that blooms later than expected.

Linden Falls and its wishing tree become the backdrop for another story of old hurt and the hope of release. This later novella centers on regret, grace, and the courage needed to forgive.

Set against the pull of the sea, this novel follows a woman trying to navigate grief, memory, and the difficult business of carrying on. Amanda Prowse turns the journey into a test of courage as much as endurance.

Overstretched Emma and newly widowed Thurston seem to have nothing in common, until grief and chaos pull them into an unexpected friendship. It is a tender, funny story about loss, perspective, and the small things that keep love alive.

This later novel asks what comes after the fairy tale, when love has already been tested by real life. Prowse turns the idea of ever after into a thoughtful story about loss, family, and hope that persists.

A contemporary family drama about the single life we get, and the hard choices required to live it honestly. Duty, love, and regret pull in different directions as its characters try to claim something truer.

In this tender speculative novella, a flaw in time lets deserving people spend fifteen minutes with someone they have lost. It is a moving idea, built around regret, love, and the ache of one last conversation.

When carefully laid plans collide with the mess of real life, the fallout reaches every relationship involved. Amanda Prowse builds the story around disappointment, adjustment, and the possibility of a future that fits better than the one imagined.