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‘Fabulous… I loved it’ Sophie Kinsella A charming, hilarious and touching story from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Some families warm your heart. Lizzy's makes her head spin.For most, home is a place of calm and safety. For Lizzy Walter, things are a bit more complicated. Keeper House – a cherished old place deep in the countryside – has always been the heart of the Walter's universe.But trouble is on the horizon. Her entire family are hiding something; then just when she was starting to get over him, the Love of Her Life makes an unexpected reappearance; and now Keeper House itself is in peril.By the time the Walters gather for a summer wedding, the stakes have never been higher – for Lizzy, for her family, and for love… Praise for Harriet Evans ‘If you’ve yet to add Harriet Evans to your must-read list, now is a great time to start’ Daily Record ‘Harriet Evans is a master at creating characters you feel like you know inside out, and wish you could meet in real life’ Heat ‘Harriet Evans is the reigning queen of the big house family drama’ i newspaper ‘She’s as good as the great Rosamunde Pilcher’ Saga

A gorgeous reissue of the warm and enchanting bestselling novel.Laura Foster is a hopeless romantic. It is her most endearing characteristic, yet consistently leads her into trouble. Friends and family look on with amused tolerance – until Laura's inability to tell reality from romantic dreams causes betrayal and a broken heart.Taking refuge in Norfolk, Laura is bitterly aware that her rose-tinted glasses have to go. She swears off men, and all things romantic, for good – until she meets Nick, the estate manager of a huge stately home. But Nick has a secret too. And it's one that Laura, however much she tries, can't get past her prejudice about.Just as she was stubbornly a die-hard romantic, so Laura is stubborn about there being no future for her and Nick. But will he manage to change her mind?

Like every woman, Kate thought she’d never meet the love of her life… Until she did. But are they destined to be together?Kate Miller has lived in New York for three long years. Now, with her father ill, it’s time to come home and face everything she left behind…Her friends: Zoe and Francesca, bound to her forever as a result of one day when life changed for them all.Her family: her adored father and his much younger wife.The job: she abandoned on a glossy women's magazine.And, the man she thought was the love of her life, whose heart she has broken.What really happened before Kate left London? And can she pick up the pieces and allow herself to love life again?A modern day love story jam-packed with humour, hurt, hope and happiness – so unputdownable you'll cancel your Friday night out to keep reading.

Rich, witty and moving, I Remember You is for anyone who likes to dream about a new life – and for anyone who still remembers their first love…For Tess Tennant, spring brings the promise of a fresh start. She’s moving back to her picture-perfect home town to take up a teaching job. Langford is a place of pretty stone cottages, friendly locals in oak-beamed pubs and of course Adam, her best friend since childhood. But Adam is preoccupied with a new girlfriend, and the past – which Tess thought she'd put behind her – is looming large again.So by the time she has to take her class on a trip to Rome, Tess is feeling reckless. She is swept off her feet by a mysterious stranger, and finds herself falling in love. But her magical Roman Holiday is about to turn into a nightmare…Back in Langford Adam is gone and everything has changed.Tess has to decide, once and for all, where she belongs and with whom.

A British When Harry met Sally from the new superstar of women’s fiction.Kate Miller re-made herself from a geeky teenager into the image of modern woman, with a career in glossy magazines, a wedding to plan and a flatmate who was her best friend. Then it all fell apart - spectacularly, painfully and forever.Ever since, she’s hidden in New York, working as a dogsbody for a literary agency. But when her father becomes ill, she has to return to London and face everything she left behind.She spends time with her upstairs neighbour, Mr Allan, an elderly widower, taking long walks along London’s canals and through leafy streets. And she visits her adored but demanding father. But eventually she has to face her friends - Zoe, Francesca and Mac - the friends who are bound together with her forever, as a result of one day when life changed for all of them.Mac is the man she thought was the love of her life. Now they don’t speak. Can Kate pick up the pieces and allow herself to love her life again?

A Richard Curtis film in book form – the perfect book to curl up with on a long winter’s evening. Now with a bonus sample chapter extracted from Harriet’s new book!Tess Tennant is moving away from London to the sleepy picture-perfect town where she grew up, to teach at the illustrious Langford College. She finds a cottage to share with a burnt-out city lawyer called Francesca. Around the corner is her childhood best friend Adam, who she's always loved like a brother …Rural life isn't quite how Tess remembers it. Bored, she returns to London for a big night out with Adam but it all ends in tears. Heartbroken and heartsick,Tess has to take her class on a trip to Rome to visit the classical monuments, and she's in the mood to be reckless.Rome in May is beautiful, filled with the scent of jasmine and warm sunshine, and soon Tess is being swept off her feet by a charming stranger who takes her round the city for a magical week and she soon forgets the complicated problems waiting for her at home.But when she does return to Langford,Tess finds a note from Adam saying he's leaving for a while. What happened between them when they were young? And what is the secret of his mysterious past?I Remember You is about the secrets of a town past and present, about a girl who likes to daydream and whether your first love is your true love.

From Sunday Times bestselling author Harriet Evans comes a compelling and heartbreaking tale of lost love, family secrets and those little moments that can change your life for ever. ‘(A) story of heartbreak and rivalry… An effortless and deeply satisfying romantic tale’ Glamour ‘An engrossing novel of jealousy, passion, forbidden love and heartache’ Woman and Home Natasha Kapoor's life is at a turning point. Reunited with her family in Cornwall for the funeral of her beloved grandmother, they sort through her possessions and prepare to sell Summercove, her idyllic Cornish coastal home, where Natasha finds the long-lost diary of her aunt Cecily, who died in a tragic accident at the age of fifteen.Returning to London, Natasha must get back to normality and to her soon-to-be ex-husband. But how can she forget the tragic tale of love, rivalry and heartbreak that emerged from the pages of Cecily’s diary? And will Cecily’s words inspire Natasha to take a second chance on love? Praise for Love Always: ‘Well written… you’ll love it’ Daily Mail ‘Romantic… Gripping…Marks Harriet Evans out as a writer of superior popular fiction’ The Lady ‘Escapism that brings with it the promise of "custard yellow" sands and hot summer sun.’ Independent ‘If you've yet to add Harriet Evans to your "must-read" list, now is a great time to start.’ Daily Record ‘Heartwarming and hugely enjoyable’ Closer ‘Wonderful.’ Marie Claire

A compelling and heartbreaking tale of lost love, family secrets and those little moments that can change your life for ever.Returning to the wild Cornish coast for the funeral of her beloved grandmother, Natasha has no idea of how things are about to change. This trip reunites her with her large and complicated family for perhaps the last time: Summercove, her grandparents' beautiful house by the sea, is being sold. With it go a generation of memories and the key to the death, many years ago, of fifteen-year-old Cecily, her aunt, a tragedy that no one ever discusses.When she finds the opening pages of Cecily's diary, written the summer she died, Natasha discovers the family she idealised has secrets that have long been buried.But where is the rest of the diary?Back in London, trying to rebuild her own life, Natasha is haunted by Cecily's writing and the tragic tale of love, rivalry and heartbreak promised in those scant pages. She has to know what happened, the summer her aunt died. And so she makes some life-changing decisions – and in the process finds out that a second chance at love might be possible…

'Funny, wistful and wise, I loved this book' Katie Fforde Absorbing storytelling at its very best from the Sunday Times bestselling author. The past catches up with you no matter how far you try to run…This is a story of a girl who doesn’t believe in happy endings. Or happy families. It’s the story of Eleanor Bee, a shy, book-loving girl who vows to turn herself into someone bright, shiny and confident, someone sophisticated. Someone who knows how life works.But life has a funny way of catching us unawares. Turns out that Elle doesn’t know everything about love. Or life. Or how to keep the ones we love safe…. Praise for Harriet Evans: ‘I love Harriet's combination of great writing talent and a wonderfully warm heart.’ ― Jilly Cooper ‘You'll want to devour it in one sitting' Telegraph 'Gorgeous' Stylist 'Spellbinding' Independent

Absorbing storytelling at its very best - the compelling novel from the Sunday Times bestselling authorYou can’t escape the ties that bind. The past catches up with you no matter how far you try to run…This is a story of a girl who doesn’t believe in happy endings. Or happy families. It’s the story of Eleanor Bee, a shy, book-loving girl who vows to turn herself into someone bright, shiny and confident, someone sophisticated. Someone who knows how life works.But life has a funny way of catching us unawares. Turns out that Elle doesn’t know everything about love. Or life. Or how to keep the ones we love safe….Absorbing, poignant and unforgettable, Happily Ever After is a compelling story of a fractured family and a girl who doesn’t believe in love.

Absorbing storytelling at its very best. An intriguing and compelling read from the Sunday Times bestselling author. ‘An elegant, fun page-turner’ Red‘You’ll race through the pages to find out what happens’ Heat If you don’t learn from history …You’re destined to repeat it. Sophie Sykes hasn’t been called by her real name in years. Since she hit the big time, she’s been LA movie star Sophie Leigh, forgetting all about her old life back in England. But in the process of leaving everything behind, she’s lost something of herself, too.Eve Noel didn’t choose her own name. Ever since her Hollywood star rose in the 1950s, she was told what to wear, when to smile, who to love. Until one day, she simply vanished: no-one knew where she went, or why…As Sophie’s picture-perfect world begins to crumble, it seems her life might be linked to Eve’s. As past and present collide, Sophie must unravel the mystery around Eve’s disappearance to save them both – but is she already too late.

If you don’t learn from history . . .You’re destined to repeat itNot without you, she’d said. And I’d let her down…Hollywood, 1961: when beautiful, much-loved movie star Eve Noel vanishes at the height of her fame, no-one knows where, much less why.Fifty years later, another young British actress, Sophie Leigh, lives in Eve’s house high in the Hollywood Hills. Eve Noel was her inspiration and Sophie, disenchanted with her life in LA, finds herself becoming increasingly obsessed with the mystery of her idol's disappearance. And the more she finds out, the more she realises Eve’s life is linked with her own.As Eve’s tragic past and the present start to collide, Sophie needs to unravel the truth to save them both – but is she already too late? Becoming increasingly entangled in Eve’s world, Sophie must decide whose life she is really living . . .

The warm and enchanting novel from the bestselling author of `Going Home’.Laura Foster is a hopeless romantic. It is her most endearing characteristic, yet consistently leads her into trouble. Friends and family look on with amused tolerance – until Laura's inability to tell reality from romantic dreams causes betrayal and a broken heart.Taking refuge in Norfolk, Laura is bitterly aware that her rose-tinted glasses have to go. She swears off men, and all things romantic, for good – until she meets Nick, the estate manager of a huge stately home. But Nick has a secret too. And it's one that Laura, however much she tries, can't get past her prejudice about.Just as she was stubbornly a die-hard romantic, so Laura is stubborn about there being no future for her and Nick. But will he manage to change her mind?

`Enchanting’ Jilly CooperLeaving her tiny flat in London – and a whole host of headaches behind – Lizzy Walter is making the familiar journey back home to spend Christmas with her big-hearted but chaotic family.In an ever-changing world, Keeper House is the one constant. But behind the mistletoe and the mince pies, family secrets lurk. And when David, the man who broke her heart, makes an unexpected reappearance, it ranks as a Christmas she would definitely rather forget.As winter slowly turns to spring, Keeper House is under threat. By the time the Walters gather at the house for a summer wedding, the stakes have never been higher – for Lizzy, for her family and for love…

‘Immersive, captivating, utterly transporting’ STACEY HALLS‘A gripping family saga, intertwining two families, two big loves, 60s New York and 50s London. If you like the Cazalets you’ll love this’ DAISY BUCHANAN'Readers of Lucinda Riley and Kate Morton will be riveted' BOOKLIST***Every family’s story starts somewhere . . . On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Alice Jansen collects her treasures – the keepsakes, figurines and mementoes that help her make sense of her fragile family. But the next day her heart is broken, and the final treasure, a gift from her father, is lost.Two years later, Alice answers a phone call from a stranger and runs away to New York, and tries to forget her last golden summer at the orchard on the banks of the Hudson.Tom Raven can’t understand why he keeps losing so many of the things and people that really matter to him, but he knows for certain that something important is missing from his life. One day, he remembers a forgotten letter and makes a phone call, then leaves Sevenstones, the only place that feels like home, for a strange city . . .An enchanting, unputdownable new novel about two people finding one another and the sweeping family story that follows, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Wildflowers and The Beloved Girls.***‘Magnificent. It has that vast sweeping sense of a huge story and such a powerfully compelling world’ MARIAN KEYES‘Summer is the perfect time to curl up with a big family saga and they don’t come much bigger and more satisfying than The Treasures . . . a compelling and richly evocative tale’ IRISH TIMES'An absorbing, richly imagined tale of one family’s beginnings, and the fates and fortunes that ricochet down through generations. Evans’ characters are built to love and root for . . . I was gripped and transported by the lives of Alice and Tom’ EMMA STONEX‘Razor sharp . . . an enjoyable family saga with some modern twists . . . quite delicious’ THE TIMES‘Filled with intricate detail, this book will entrance and move you. Harriet Evans is a master storyteller’ KATIE FFORDE‘Harriet Evans is our go-to author for sweeping cross-generational stories’ FABULOUS‘A pure delight from start to finish. You’ll be longing for the next book’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING‘The very definition of escape’ VERONICA HENRY‘[Harriet] has such a skill to draw readers in, and any fans of multi-generational stories will love this one’ PRIMA‘An absolute treat’ RED‘Packed with beautiful characterisation and atmospheric settings’ WOMAN & HOME

Women in urban China have lived through decades of political turbulence, extensive socio-economic change, and the transformation of gender practices, expectations, and relationships. Among these is the mother-daughter relationship, one that has profound influence on women's gendered subjectivity but one that has been overlooked in research on gender and family in China. In The Subject of Gender, Harriet Evans reflects on how women in urban China make sense of the shifts in practices and representations of gender that frame their lives and how their self-identification as mothers and daughters contributes to the redefinition of those practices. Based on the memories and experiences of educated and professional women of different ages, this book discusses the mother-daughter relationship through various themes: separation, communication, domestic/public boundaries, male privilege, the sexed body, reproduction, and filial responsibilities. This fascinating work draws on feminist and critical theory and on anthropological and historical research to analyze the changing articulations of gender subjectivity that emerge from the links between discursive shifts, generational difference, and individual experiences of the mother-daughter relationship.

Women in urban China have lived through decades of political turbulence, extensive socio-economic change, and the transformation of gender practices, expectations, and relationships. Among these is the mother-daughter relationship, one that has profound influence on women's gendered subjectivity but one that has been overlooked in research on gender and family in China. In The Subject of Gender, Harriet Evans reflects on how women in urban China make sense of the shifts in practices and representations of gender that frame their lives and how their self-identification as mothers and daughters contributes to the redefinition of those practices. Based on the memories and experiences of educated and professional women of different ages, this book discusses the mother-daughter relationship through various themes: separation, communication, domestic/public boundaries, male privilege, the sexed body, reproduction, and filial responsibilities. This fascinating work draws on feminist and critical theory and on anthropological and historical research to analyze the changing articulations of gender subjectivity that emerge from the links between discursive shifts, generational difference, and individual experiences of the mother-daughter relationship.

Since the early 1980s sex and sexuality have become prominent themes of public debate in China, after three decades during which discourses on sexuality were subject to stringent ideological controls. This book analyses the ways in which sex and sexuality have been discussed in The People's Republic of China since 1949. It examines a wide range of materials - the official and popular press, women's magazines, sex education publications, self-help guides and medical advice pamphlets - and compares and contrasts the various discourses of sexuality and the meanings associated with 'woman' that emerge from them. It considers the role of the state in matters of sexuality, and argues that women's sexuality has been consistently targeted as a site for the regulation of general standards of sexual and social conduct.This is a highly original contribution to the growing body of literature on women and gender in China. It will appeal to students and scholars of modern and contemporary China, and to all those engaged in current debates about sexuality and gender in international feminist scholarship.

Based on recent primary research in anthropology, sociology, history and politics, and on insights from political activism, Gender in Flux addresses gender as a main axis of social organization and cultural practice in China. Covering the impoverished rural 'sending' villages of western China to the big and wealthy Yangzi valley city of Nanjing, the far northeastern village of Huangbaiyu to the major urban centres of Tianjin and Beijing, it examines gendered practices and experiences in socio-economic, political and administrative configurations, family and household organization, education, employment and mobility, and generation. The volume addresses gendered expectations and practices as lived experience within and across different scales, challenging the standard social science division of urban, rural and migrant. Gender in Flux thus sheds important light on how the changing manifestations and articulations of gender across different practices confound any attempt at a uniform analysis.

The unputdownable love story spanning continents, years and families, from the Sunday Times bestselling author – the perfect holiday read for fans of Eve Chase, Lucinda Riley, and Kate Morton.‘Immersive, captivating, utterly transporting’ STACEY HALLS‘Filled with intricate detail, this book will entrance and move you. Harriet Evans is a master storyteller’ KATIE FFORDE‘The very definition of escape’ VERONICA HENRY‘Magnificent. It has that vast sweeping sense of a huge story and such a powerfully compelling world’ MARIAN KEYES***One golden summer. One missing treasure. And a secret that binds two lives together. Every year, Alice's father gives her a treasure. Then on the morning of her sixteenth birthday, her final gift vanishes - along with the fragile certainty of her world. Alice runs, towards New York City and away from the memories of that last summer at the orchard where she grew up.Across the Atlantic, Tom has always felt that something is missing from his life. When he finds a long-forgotten letter, it leads him away from Sevenstones – the house at the heart of his family for generations – and towards a truth no one has ever fully told.From post-war London to 1960s New York, Alice and Tom's stories become entwined. But will the secrets of their past bring them together, or break them apart?***‘Razor sharp . . . an enjoyable family saga with some modern twists . . . quite delicious’ THE TIMES ‘A gripping family saga, intertwining two families and two big loves. If you like the Cazalets you’ll love this’ DAISY BUCHANAN‘Summer is the perfect time to curl up with a big family saga and they don’t come much bigger and more satisfying than The Treasures . . . a compelling and richly evocative tale’ IRISH TIMES'An absorbing, richly imagined tale of one family’s beginnings, and the fates and fortunes that ricochet down through generations. . . . I was gripped’ EMMA STONEX‘[Harriet] has such a skill to draw readers in, and any fans of multi-generational stories will love this one’ PRIMA‘A pure delight from start to finish. You’ll be longing for the next book’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'Readers of Lucinda Riley and Kate Morton will be riveted' BOOKLIST THE TREASURES is the first book in Sunday Times bestseller Harriet Evans' enchanting 'Sevenstones' trilogy.

The unputdownable love story spanning continents, years and families, from the Sunday Times bestselling author – the perfect holiday read for fans of Eve Chase, Lucinda Riley, and Kate Morton.‘Immersive, captivating, utterly transporting’ STACEY HALLS‘Filled with intricate detail, this book will entrance and move you. Harriet Evans is a master storyteller’ KATIE FFORDE‘The very definition of escape’ VERONICA HENRY‘Magnificent. It has that vast sweeping sense of a huge story and such a powerfully compelling world’ MARIAN KEYES***One golden summer. One missing treasure. And a secret that binds two lives together. Every year, Alice's father gives her a treasure. Then on the morning of her sixteenth birthday, her final gift vanishes - along with the fragile certainty of her world. Alice runs, towards New York City and away from the memories of that last summer at the orchard where she grew up.Across the Atlantic, Tom has always felt that something is missing from his life. When he finds a long-forgotten letter, it leads him away from Sevenstones – the house at the heart of his family for generations – and towards a truth no one has ever fully told.From post-war London to 1960s New York, Alice and Tom's stories become entwined. But will the secrets of their past bring them together, or break them apart?***‘Razor sharp . . . an enjoyable family saga with some modern twists . . . quite delicious’ THE TIMES ‘A gripping family saga, intertwining two families and two big loves. If you like the Cazalets you’ll love this’ DAISY BUCHANAN‘Summer is the perfect time to curl up with a big family saga and they don’t come much bigger and more satisfying than The Treasures . . . a compelling and richly evocative tale’ IRISH TIMES'An absorbing, richly imagined tale of one family’s beginnings, and the fates and fortunes that ricochet down through generations. . . . I was gripped’ EMMA STONEX‘[Harriet] has such a skill to draw readers in, and any fans of multi-generational stories will love this one’ PRIMA‘A pure delight from start to finish. You’ll be longing for the next book’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'Readers of Lucinda Riley and Kate Morton will be riveted' BOOKLIST THE TREASURES is the first book in Sunday Times bestseller Harriet Evans' enchanting 'Sevenstones' trilogy.

A heartwarming and moving novel of family and love from the international bestselling author of the “effortless and deeply satisfying” (Glamour, UK) Love Always.They say love feels like going home…but what if your home is no longer there? Leaving her tiny flat in London—and a whole host of headaches behind—Lizzy Walter is making the familiar journey back home to spend Christmas with her chaotic but big-hearted family. In an ever-changing world, her parents’ country home, Keeper House, is the one constant. But behind the mistletoe and mince pies, family secrets and rivalries lurk. And when David, the Love of Her Life—or so she thought—makes an unexpected reappearance, this one ranks as a Christmas she would definitely rather forget. As winter slowly turns to spring, all the things that Lizzy has taken for granted begin to shift. Keeper House is in jeopardy and might have to be sold for reasons Lizzy doesn’t understand. Her family seems fractured like never before. And, with a new man in her life, she may finally have to kiss her dream of a reunion with David goodbye. By the time the Walters gather at Keeper House for a summer wedding, the stakes have never been higher—for Lizzy, for her family, and for love.

From the bestselling author of Going Home, which Sophie Kinsella hailed as “fabulous,” comes a novel sure to touch and delight anyone who believes in love.Laura Foster is a hopeless romantic. Her friends know it, her parents know it—even Laura acknowledges she lives either with her head in the clouds or buried in a romance novel. It’s proved harmless enough, even if it hasn’t delivered her a real-life dashing hero yet. But when her latest relationship ends in a disaster that costs her friendships, her job, and nearly her sanity, Laura swears off men and hopeless romantic fantasies for good. With her life in tatters around her, Laura agrees to go on vacation with her parents. After a few days of visiting craft shops and touring the stately homes of England, Laura is ready to tear her hair out. And then, while visiting grand Chartley Hall, she crosses paths with Nick, the sexy, rugged estate manager. She finds she shares more than a sense of humor with him—in fact, she starts to think she could fall for him. But is Nick all he seems? Or has Laura got it wrong again? Will she open her heart only to have it broken again?

Internationally bestselling author Harriet Evans gives readers "the perfect girly read" (Cosmopolitan, UK) in this fun, bittersweet, and irresistibly surprising journey of fresh starts and first loves. Twelve years in bustling London have left Tess Tennant dumped by her boyfriend, out of work, and miserable. Still, maybe taking a new job as a classics professor at the tiny college in her picture-perfect hometown in the English countryside was a bit drastic. Langford’s stone cottages, quaint shops, and lifelong locals feel even smaller than she remembered, but at least Tess has Adam, her best and oldest friend. On a spontaneous birthday adventure back to the city, though, their painful and heartbreaking past forces them into an angry confrontation. Tess escapes to Rome on a class trip and falls unexpectedly into the arms of Peter, a charming American journalist . . . until a tragedy cuts her vacation short. Back home and alone, Tess must slowly unravel her feelings about her secretive best friend, the romantic new lover she barely knows, and the independent woman she really wants to be.