Margaret Leroy Books in Order

Margaret Leroy's nonfiction book addresses miscarriage as an experience faced by women. Written as a self-help resource, it focuses on a subject often encountered through hospital care and personal loss.

This nonfiction exploration of female sexuality considers sexual education, desire, and the ways women understand their own experiences. Leroy examines subjects spanning childhood, sexual relationships, and later life, with attention to women's perspectives.

Why do women hesitate to make the first move in romance? Leroy examines the expectations surrounding who initiates relationships, women's choices, and men's responses, questioning conventions that encourage women to wait to be pursued.

Divorced social worker Chloe falls in love with school psychologist Dan, hoping for happiness for herself and her two daughters. When he is accused of abusing a child, her trust in him collides with fears for her family.

Psychiatrist Tess is devastated when a patient she discharged kills a young woman. Seeking out the victim's partner, Ben, she begins a secret affair that entwines desire with guilt and threatens both her career and her existing relationships.

Catriona Lydgate searches desperately for an explanation for her daughter's prolonged illness. When doctors suspect she is causing it herself, troubling postcards and concealed childhood experiences threaten her marriage and her ability to protect Daisy.

Catriona's carefully built family life begins to unravel when her young daughter Daisy falls ill. As she seeks help, suspicion turns toward her, forcing her to confront an abusive childhood she has tried to leave behind.

Ginnie Holmes finds escape from an empty marriage in secret meetings with a lover beside the Thames. After a woman is murdered nearby, what Ginnie has witnessed could help solve the crime while exposing her affair.

Grace cannot explain her daughter Sylvie's terror of water or her fixation on an Irish seaside town. With a researcher who studies the paranormal, she travels there to investigate memories that seem to belong to another life.

With her husband away fighting, Vivienne de la Mare faces German occupation on Guernsey. An attraction to an enemy soldier draws her toward a private refuge, even as the demands of resistance make her choices increasingly dangerous.

Seventeen-year-old Stella Whittaker arrives in Vienna to study music and falls in love with a Jewish doctor. As Nazi influence grows, the city and the household sheltering her become places of deception and mounting danger.

Widowed Livia Ripley struggles to protect her two daughters during the London Blitz. An affair with a charismatic publisher offers escape, while volunteering as an air-raid warden brings her closer to the war and to unexpected inner strength.