Jo Baker Books in Order

Young Claire struggles to understand her identity as she moves between Lancashire, Oxford and Belfast. A destructive relationship and revelations about her mother’s past force her to confront isolation, family history and the possibility of valuing herself.

After her father dies, outsider Malin leaves home to search for the mother she believes was a mermaid. Encounters with unusual companions carry her across oceans and deserts toward a discovery that challenges her hopes of a mythical inheritance.

Rachel visits her late mother’s isolated house intending to clear it quickly and return home. An unsettling presence makes her suspect the building holds a message, blurring the boundary between buried history, grief and her own increasingly uncertain perceptions.

Four generations of the Hastings family navigate war, ambition and changing expectations across a turbulent century. From a factory worker joining the navy to an artist in modern London, their choices reveal the difficult inheritance of secrets and missed opportunities.

Orphaned housemaid Sarah longs for possibilities beyond the Bennet household and the limits of her class. A mysterious new footman disrupts life below stairs, exposing private histories and desires concealed behind the familiar events of Pride and Prejudice.

An unknown Irish writer living in Paris joins the Resistance as war destroys the world around him. This imagined account of Samuel Beckett’s wartime experiences follows danger, displacement and the struggle to find language adequate to human devastation.

A writer takes a university job after a violent assault, hoping to start again with her young son. When a student’s fiction casts her in a threatening role, tensions in her classroom begin spilling dangerously into her life.

During the London Blitz, Charlotte tries to preserve an independent life despite grief and her father’s control. An unsettling sense of being followed makes her question whom she can trust, while an unexpected friendship offers a fragile refuge.