Anita Burgh Books in Order

A working-class woman marries into the aristocracy and confronts the prejudices concealed behind privilege. Her relationship brings love into conflict with social expectations, exposing the pressures and unfairness of the English class system.

Widowed Ann Grange faces pressure from family and friends to rebuild her life according to their expectations. Meeting a mysterious Greek man offers another possibility, forcing her to reassess her past and her relationship with her son.

Alice Tregowan grows up amid Cornwall's mining wealth, devoted to her family's granite estate, Gwenfer. Her childhood friend La Blewett, raised in poverty, envies that security, setting ambition and resentment against Alice's attachment to home.

Juniper Boscar's privileged upbringing gives her little protection against the consequences of her own destructive charm. Alongside actress Polly Frobisher and Grace's consuming romantic obsession, her story carries the family saga from Cornwall and America into wartime France.

Molly Parminter likes to consider herself open-minded, despite her comfortable place in traditional Sarson Magna. When newcomer Colin Mann proposes changes to village life, her initial enthusiasm turns into a battle involving her home, family, and neighbours.

In 1940s Britain, restless Juniper struggles with marriage and motherhood while searching for excitement elsewhere. Her choices threaten her friendship with Polly and unsettle Alice, whose devotion to Gwenfer binds the family's troubled generations together.

Aspiring novelist Kate Howard, ambitious editor Gloria Catchpole, and literary agent Joy Trenchard meet through the publishing world. Career pressures, an unsupportive marriage, and a kidnapping entangle their private lives with the pursuit of a major book deal.

Three wealthy men, a film star, an arms dealer, and a pharmaceutical magnate, become the targets of Guthrie Everyman. His million-pound offer involving an elixir of life launches a treasure hunt that tests their secrets and greed.

Life in Sarson Magna becomes increasingly complicated for Molly Parminter, whose household troubles now include Hector's enthusiasm for ballooning. Village personalities and competing interests turn an apparently harmless hobby into another source of disruption for the community.

Sisters Kitty and Lana pursue success in very different musical worlds, one in opera and the other in rock. Their mother's preference for Lana intensifies an existing rivalry, which becomes more painful when both sisters love the same man.

Peggy Alder believes her family's financial problems stand between her and happiness. An unexpected lottery windfall gives her the means to change everything, but the consequences of sudden wealth challenge her assumptions about money and a satisfying life.

Divorced Thomasine Lambert rescues an abandoned dog and enters the competitive world of dog breeding. New connections with a widowed vet and breeder Oliver Eveleigh promise companionship, while cruelty, jealousy, and damaged reputations complicate her fresh start.

Ginnie, Jessica, and Selina each reach a personal crisis involving betrayal, fading success, or a failed relationship. Seeking renewal at a Cornish retreat, they fall under charismatic Xavier's influence, only to discover increasingly disturbing aspects of his community.

Chrissy Galloway returns to nursing at her hometown hospital, St Edith's, as its future comes under threat from a larger institution. Three patient deaths place her under suspicion, turning professional uncertainty into a struggle to protect her reputation.

Jillian's apparently happy marriage conceals growing doubts about her husband and the stability of their family. When a crisis leaves her facing life alone, she must reconsider the relationship she trusted and find the strength to rebuild.

At school in France, Clare Springer falls in love with an aristocrat whose family refuses to accept her. The outbreak of the Second World War changes her future, drawing her into the Resistance amid occupation and divided loyalties.

Successful writer Kate Howard has built a life in the French Auvergne with her lover Stewart and daughter Lucy. An agent's call threatens her livelihood, while the arrival of Mo Tristram introduces fresh disruption into her household.

Eliza Forester grows up believing her banished mother is dead, under the authority of a harsh father. Friendship across class boundaries offers comfort, but family pressure and an imposed marriage threaten her hopes of controlling her own future.

In 1899, Phoebe Drewitt escapes her brutal father and finds shelter with reclusive Kendall Bartholomew. An invitation into shopkeeper Arnold Randolph-Smythe's household places her among concealed resentments, where apparently respectable lives prove more complicated than they seem.

As elderly Mortimer Cresswell approaches death, relatives gather with competing hopes for his fortune. A wealthy newcomer's interest in the family's Devon estate intensifies their divisions, bringing aristocratic pride, ambition, and forbidden attachments into a bitter feud.

In 1913, the Cresswell family pursues love, pleasure, and independence at its Devon manor. Hannah embraces the suffragette cause while other relatives challenge marriage and class expectations, unaware how completely the approaching war will transform their lives.

By spring 1915, Cresswell Manor has become a convalescent home for wounded soldiers. With men away fighting, women shoulder new responsibilities on the estate, while loneliness, guilt, and changing social expectations put their relationships under pressure.