Bøker av Diana Appleyard

It has been an idyllic summer, Tess reflects, as she packs up the Cornish holiday home in preparation for plunging back into the cold reality of normal life.

Tom, lazy and charming, looks after the children and thinks about writing a novel while his ambitious wife Sarah pursues her career as a journalist.Nat is married to the unstylish Cassie, who spends her life in jodhpurs, but although an ill-matched couple they have a strong and enduring marriage.

It's time to start thinking the unthinkable... Carrie Adams, successful television producer, mother and wife, is about to return to work.

Lucy Beresford knows her middle-class family thinks she's married beneath her when she gets together with the devastatingly sexy Rob. Her parents cannot believe that she would choose him above Max, her so-suitable former boyfriend. Gradually the differences between Rob and Lucy begin to loom large.