Catherine Alliott Books in Order

Annabel is juggling teenage children, widowhood and worries about her ageing mother when plans emerge to sell the family’s London house. As bossy Clarissa and glamorous Ginnie circle the inheritance and play matchmaker, buried family secrets push Annabel to rethink what home and happiness really mean.

Emma and Hugh inherit the beloved Pink House, his idyllic childhood home, along with its obligations: hosting their son’s wedding, sharing the grounds with Hugh’s sister and opening an art gallery in the barn. When Emma’s old flame resurfaces, the move forces her to question love, loyalty and fresh starts.

From the outside Lucy Palmer’s life looks enviable, until her marriage to Michael collapses overnight. Retreating with her children to her parents’ ramshackle farmhouse in the Chilterns, she must face buried truths, an old flame and the secrets she’s avoided for years.

Flora has loved her ex-husband for twenty years, even though he remarried long ago. Invited to spend the summer with his formidable mother in Cornwall, she finds herself sharing a house with her ex, his new wife and a disconcerting buried family secret.

Widowed Molly is stuck running her late husband’s struggling country dream and mail-order business. An unexpected London inheritance offers escape, until she discovers the flat already houses an infuriatingly charming tenant and a face from her past that complicates everything she thought she wanted.

Flora, her husband James and their teenage daughters swap London worries for a summer in a grand French chateau, earned with one simple good deed. Surprise guests, old loves and James’s wandering eye soon turn their dream holiday into a tangle of family secrets and temptations.

Ella shares a crumbling farmhouse with her stroppy teenagers, her sharp-tongued mother and, inconveniently, her ex-husband in the outhouse across the lawn. When Sebastian suddenly decides to move on, she is forced to confront what really broke their marriage and the secret she’s hidden for years.

After her Lycra-clad, cycling-obsessed husband dies in a freak accident, Poppy Shilling feels guilty relief as well as grief. Throwing herself into village life brings flirtations, gossip and a disturbing secret about her marriage that makes risking her heart again far more complicated.

Antiques dealer Hattie Carrington appears content with her business, her teenage son and a younger boyfriend. A job that takes her back to Little Crandon rekindles memories of an affair with a married politician and brings her face-to-face with his widow and his intriguing younger brother.

In Oxfordshire, Evie Hamilton’s biggest worry is fitting a manicure between school runs. Then a single letter lands on her immaculate doormat, shattering her comfortable world and forcing her to decide what she’s willing to fight for when her supposedly perfect life proves far more fragile.

Artist Imogen and her husband Alex accept a rent-free cottage on his glamorous ex-girlfriend’s country estate to save money. Among murderous chickens, nosy locals and a too-charming headmaster, Imogen must decide whether her crowded marriage can survive Eleanor’s constant, unsettling presence.

Once devoted stay-at-home mother Henrietta Tate takes a London PA job with charismatic historian Laurie and rediscovers a life beyond the school run. As her husband grows jealous and an old flame reappears, she’s suddenly caught between three men and unsure who she really wants.

Divorced single mum Annie O’Harran plans a quiet Cornish summer to finish her book and prepare to remarry. Instead she’s invaded by her competitive sister, her louche ex-husband and an angst-ridden American houseguest, threatening to derail both her peace and her carefully planned second wedding.

Widowed Lucy Fellowes escapes her cramped London flat when her wealthy in‑laws offer her a converted barn on their country estate. Surrounded by a family still worshipping her late husband and drawn to married neighbour Charlie, she must choose between loyalty, independence and the lure of new love.

When Johnny walks out on Olivia, their ten-year-old daughter and a half-renovated wreck of a house, she is left devastated and broke. Juggling disruptive builders, meddling neighbours and single motherhood, Olivia slowly learns to rebuild both the house and her sense of what she deserves from life.

Rosie rushed into marriage with charming Harry and now shares little with him except their small son. After one drunken, unforgivable night pushes her to file for divorce, she has to abandon revenge fantasies, rebuild her life and decide what she really wants from love.

At thirty, Tessa Hamilton seems to have it all: a solid marriage, lovely home and children. The return of Patrick, the intense first love her family once forbade, tempts her to risk everything to discover whether she chose security over the real thing years ago.

Romantic, scatterbrained Polly McLaren agrees to help American stranger Adam find his missing fiancée using their exclusive school’s old-girl network. What begins as a favour spirals into a web of secrets and misunderstandings that entangle Polly’s job, her boyfriend and her own heart.

Newly married Polly Penhalligan has swapped London life for a Cornish farmhouse and slipped into lazy routines that horrify her husband. To prove she hasn’t gone dull, she lets a TV crew use their home, only to ignite chaos that could blow her marriage apart.