A novel by Amazon # 1 best-selling author Allie Cresswell. The McKay family gathers for a week-long holiday at a rambling old house to celebrate the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Robert and Mary. In recent years only funerals and sudden, severe ill...
The first volume of Amazon # 1 best-selling author Allie Cresswell's quartet 'Lost Boys'. Iris Fairlie is lonely, isolated but increasingly unable to cope with independent living. Against her every desire she is moved into Bridge House, a home for th...
Rosie and her son Matthew have fallen on hard times. Rosie’s husband has left them for another woman and lost his job as a consequence of his adultery. A combination of debts and negative equity has meant a move from an affluent development backing...
Jade has had a terrible day. If having her little nephew swept away by a river in spate isn’t bad enough, she finds herself caught up in a violent riot. Weeks of energy-sapping drought have culminated in a vicious storm and damaging flash-floods. H...
Skinner’s mother Megan is hiding in plain sight. She has a job at the all-day breakfast café at the motorway services. The café is no-one’s destination, just an en route stop-off for strangers on the journey to somewhere else, and nobody local ...
A novel from the Amazon #1 best-selling author Allie Cresswell. Who knows what secrets are trapped, like caged tigers, behind our neighbours' doors? When Molly and Stan move into a new housing development, Molly becomes a one-woman social committee, ...
** A novel by Readers' Favorite Silver Medalist, Allie Cresswell.**** "The jewels in Cresswell's story are her gorgeous descriptions from the lush to the austere, from the opulent to the empty." This is a middle-aged coming-of-age story with kindness...
From the author of the Amazon #1 best-selling anthology 'The Book' comes a new collection of journal entries, original short stories, excerpts, reviews and articles. In ‘Genesis’ a writer begins a new work from scratch. It is to be her signature ...
Considered a troublesome burden, Evelyn Talbot is banished by her family to their remote country house. Tall Chimneys is hidden in a damp and gloomy hollow. It is outmoded and inconvenient but Evelyn is determined to save it from the fate of so many ...
Thirty years before the beginning of 'Emma' Mrs Bates is entirely different from the elderly, almost entirely silent figure familiar to fans of Jane Austen's fourth novel. She is comparatively young and beautiful, widowed - but ready to love again. S...
This is the second book in the Highbury Trilogy, but stands equally well alone.Thirty years before the commencement of Jane Austen's 'Emma', Highbury is a thriving and populous village. The Bates family has seen a decline in their fortunes. Partly in...
Minnie Price married late in life. Now she is widowed. And starving. No one suspects this respectable church-goer can barely keep body and soul together. Why would they, while she resides in the magnificent home she shared with Peter? Her friends and...
**The new novel by the best-selling author Allie Cresswell****A prequel to the award-winning Tall Chimneys**The Talbots are wealthy. But their wealth is from 'trade'. With neither ancient lineage nor title, they struggle for entrance into elite Regen...
What secrets hide beneath the veil? When her mother departs for a tour of the continent, Georgina is sent from the rural backwaters to stay with her cousin, George Talbot, in London. The 1835 season is at its height, but Georgina is determined to att...
Burned-out author Dee needs fresh inspiration. Impetuously, she abandons London and her good-for-nothing boyfriend to go wherever her literary quest takes her. Journey's end is a remote village on the shores of a wild estuary, overshadowed by a ruine...
One evening, Viola goes missing.Only Maisie cares. Recently, their shared love of gardening has almost blunted Viola's barbs, and Maisie is much in need of a close friend. Her house is a building site, her daughter's wedding is looming ... and then t...
My earliest memory is of you, Arthur. We were children, running across the garden at Granny's house. The sun on your hair made it look like copper wire. Then you stopped, and I cannoned into you. We both went headlong into the rockery. It was 1964, t...
Folklore whispers that they used to burn witches at the standing stone on the moor. When the wind is easterly, it wails a strange lament. History declares it was placed as a marker, visible for miles—a signpost for the lost, directing them towa...