The Valentines Books in Order

The Valentines series follows a London acting dynasty so famous that the four Valentine siblings have grown up on red carpets and in gossip columns. Their house is huge, their wardrobes full of designer clothes and their parents are movie stars, but cameras and expectations are everywhere. Under the sparkle, each sibling is quietly trying to work out who they are when the whole world thinks it already knows.

Each book takes a different sister as narrator and lets readers live inside her head. In Happy Girl Lucky we meet Hope, the youngest, who is home schooled, kept out of the spotlight until she turns sixteen and obsessed with classic movie romance. She rewrites her life as film scenes, reads horoscopes like scripts and is convinced that destiny will hand her a perfect love story if she can just follow the right cues.

Far From Perfect shifts to Faith, the middle sister everyone else calls flawless. On posters and magazine covers she looks calm and camera ready, yet what she really wants is a quiet, ordinary life that belongs to her. Faith is pushed to maintain impossible standards, from her appearance to her behaviour, and the book digs into what happens when you spend years trying to please agents, brands and parents instead of listening to your own voice.

In Love Me Not the focus moves to Mercy, the eldest Valentine daughter and a rising stage actress. Mercy has built a hard party girl persona to protect herself after loss and family upheaval. She is sharp, funny and often cruel because it feels safer to push people away first. As her new theatre role and messy private life collide, the story peels back that armour to explore grief, guilt and the fear that she is unlovable.

Running through all three novels is a slow reveal of the family's shared history. The siblings are dealing with divorce, addiction, complicated parents and the long shadow of tragedy, as well as crushes, friendships and school. The series looks at fame from the inside, questioning who controls a young woman's image, what it costs to grow up in public and how easy it is to confuse performance with real personality.

Despite the heavy topics, The Valentines keeps a light, funny voice, full of one liners, romantic mishaps and chaotic set pieces on film sets, red carpets and late night parties. Each book can be read on its own, but taken in order you see the same family dramas from three very different angles as Hope, Faith and Mercy each tell the truth as they see it and slowly learn how to write their own stories.