Have You Read
Charlotte Bingham
Lucinda 1966
Rose's Story 1972
Coronet Among The Grass 1972
Victoria 1972
No Honestly 1974
Victoria And Company 1974
Yes Honestly 1977
Belgravia 1983
Country Life 1985
At Home 1986
To Hear a Nightingale 1988
The Business 1989
In Sunshine Or In Shadow 1991
Stardust 1992
By Invitation 1993
Nanny 1993
Change Of Heart 1994
Debutantes 1995
The Nightingale Sings 1996
Grand Affair 1997
Love Song 1998
Country Wedding 1999
The Kissing Garden 1999
The Blue Note 2000
The Love Knot 2000
The Season 2001
Summertime 2001
The Chestnut Tree 2002
Distant Music 2002
The Moon At Midnight 2003
The Wind Of The Sea 2003
Daughters Of Eden 2004
The House Of Flowers 2004
The Magic Hour 2005
Friday's Girl 2005
Out Of The Blue 2006
 When Amadea Fontaine wakes upon her thirtieth birthday to find a naked man in the spare room of her immaculate flat, she is horrified, not least because — suffering from her first ever hangover — she cannot remember who he is, but, it subsequently emerges, nor can he.

Desperate to find out how this extremely handsome and engaging man ended up in her home, Amadea enlists the help of her neighbour, Doctor Rob Greer. At first, following efforts to help Amadea's naked guest, whom she christens "Edward No Name," regain his memory, it is decided that the best thing for him is to be hospitalized. However, when it looks as if Edward is about to become the victim of medical experiments, they are forced to act, and spirit him away from hospital and down to her mother's remote farmhouse in Somerset.

Florence Fontaine lives simply, off the land, without television or radio, and Edward feels as if he has awoken in Paradise. As the summer sun starts to climb into the heavens, and birdsong fills the air, his memory starts to return. But, it is only when the local country estate holds a Fête champêtre, to which everyone is invited to appear in eighteenth-century costume, that Edward's true identity — and his past — are revealed.
Poppies 2006
  
In Distant Fields 2006
 Christmas 1913: Kitty and Lady Partita are best friends despite vastly different backgrounds. Partita has invited her friend, Kitty to stay at her ancestral home, Borders Castle. The grandeur of Partita's family seat is in stark contrast to Kitty's home in London where she and her mother, Violet, struggle to maintain appearances despite Kitty's father gambling away the family money. Kitty is introduced to the aristocracy — a world she finds fascinatingly decorative and theatrical. She is enthralled by it, and desperately wants to be part of this way of life that is so far removed from the genteel poverty in which she and her mother are forced to exist.

But war breaks out, not only irrevocably changing society, but also the lives of these two beautiful young women. The headstrong Partita and down-to-earth Kitty become nurses, caring selflessly for men who have been horrifically injured in the trenches.

In Distant Fields is about the mothers and daughters, sisters and wives who are left holding things together on the home front and caring for their men. But, more importantly, it's about the nature of female friendship.
White Marriage 2007
 Sunny's mundane country life is changed over night when handsome, stylish Gray's Bentley breaks down outside her parents' cottage in Rushington. It seems that he may have fallen in love with her. Although Sunny herself remains unconvinced, her best friend Arietta believes that Sunny is soon to be set on the road to wealth and happiness. Shortly after meeting Gray for the second time at a local ball, Sunny is invited out by his close friend, the beautiful socialite, Leandra Fortescue, who tells her over lunch that Gray wants to marry her if she will accept certain conditions. Sunny does accept, even as Arietta is leaving Rushington to work in London. Sunny soon joins Arietta at her cheerfully chaotic lodgings. It is here that she realises that she can find the sort of contentment that has eluded sophisticates such as Gray and Leandra. Here too she meets Hart and, despite being engaged to Gray, falls in love with him, just as Arietta has fallen for his friend, jazz-playing painter, Sam. By chance Arietta comes into a secret about Gray, but is afraid to tell Sunny, and yet not to tell her might ruin her future.
Goodnight Sweetheart 2007
 A romantic wartime novel encompassing both love and tragedy.

As Walter Berrisford paints beautiful Katherine Garland, she asks him to put a ladybird on her finger without his knowing why. He is appalled when he discovers that Katherine is a Nazi. The outbreak of war means that her sister Caro and her friend Robyn join the FANYs, while former maids, Betty and Trixie, work in a factory.

War brings frantic romance to all, including their flatmate Edwina O'Brien, but it is Betty, transferred to decode at the Park that alone discovers the truth about the Ladybird.
The Enchanted 2008

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