Sarah Rayner Books in Order

An ambitious magazine writer becomes involved with a publisher who could advance her career. His wife senses something wrong behind their apparently successful marriage, and their alternating accounts explore the choices and damage created by the affair.

When a trusted colleague wins a promotion through a secret affair and leaves her feeling sidelined, Ivy plans revenge. Her destructive campaign in a London advertising agency exposes professional jealousy, damaged friendship and questions about her own hidden motives.

A man collapses on a crowded morning train from Brighton to London, changing the lives of three women aboard. Over the following week, his wife and two fellow passengers confront loss, private difficulties and the possibility of sustaining one another.

Two women in different parts of England long to have children under very different circumstances. One faces a partner’s reluctance and dwindling time, while the other confronts infertility, bringing strangers toward a possibility that could change both families.

Three people overwhelmed by bereavement, caregiving and financial ruin meet at a psychiatric clinic in Brighton. Sharing their fears and finding support in one another offers hope, but a new crisis tests their fragile progress and growing friendship.

A letter and music compilation from her first love arrive on the day of Suzy’s mother’s funeral. After a car accident leaves her with disturbing memories and gaps, she revisits past relationships to understand the fear taking hold of her.