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HOME TRUTHS – out now in paperback!
 
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Our mother ran off with a cowboy from Denver when we were small…
Brought up by their eccentric uncle Django, the McCabe sisters had assumed their mid-thirties would be a time of happiness and stability.
The youngest, Cat, returns home from four years abroad, to start a new phase of her life. Easy – or so she thinks.
Fen, the middle sister, is determined to be a better mother to her baby daughter than her own was to her – but might this be at the expense of her love-life?
And is the eldest, Pip, too busy taking care of her stepson, her husband, her sisters, her uncle to notice her own needs?
At Django’s 75th birthday party, secrets are revealed that will change how the three sisters view their family forever. Heart and home, previously intertwined, are forced apart as identities are called into question.
Mothers, daughters, lovers, liars… what do you do when you find out that your sisters aren’t quite your sisters? |
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When it comes to love, should you listen to your head, your heart or your best friend?
Thea Luckmore, a composed and dedicated massage therapist believes in love, the magic spark of true, old-fashioned love. She has to fall head over heels, or rather, heart over head.
However, her best friend Alice Heggarty, a spirited and successful magazine publisher, has always been a slave to lust though invariably it ends in tears. Turning 30, as yet another disastrous relationship ends, Alice makes a decision. It’s time to marry and she knows just the man who would make an excellent husband.
For Thea, a chance encounter on Primrose Hill ignites that elusive spark she’s preoccupied with… Saul Mundy promises to be the perfect fit and Thea finds herself falling deeply in love and loving it.
But though newly-wed Alice encourages Thea to settle down, Alice herself finds that she’s not as keen as she thought on playing by the rules. She starts to break them left, right and centre… At the same time, Thea’s world is shaken to core.
Love. Sex. Fidelity. Friendship. What’s it all about? |
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Pip McCabe, 30, likes to say she doesn't need a man and she doesn't need money.
However, her friends and her sisters think she would benefit from a little more of each. But stripy tights, starched pigtails, a bright red nose and an ability to juggle whilst doing the splits only just about pay the bills and seldom lead to romance or romps. Pip, though, takes her clowning very seriously, whether at spoilt kids' parties or on the wards of children's hospitals. She simply doesn't have time for a man, she claims. And her bank balance hovers just above the red, so that's OK.
Zac Holmes, 34, has a successful, high-powered career, a fabulous flat and an adored 6-year-old son from a previous relationship. Popular, charming and affluent, Zac feels that no-strings flings suit his lifestyle as much as the pleasing bonuses he earns at work.
When Zac and Pip first meet, it is far from love or lust at first sight. What can a clown and an accountant possibly have in common? Against a lively backdrop of parties and parks, hospitals and hotels, the attempt to find out... |
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Fen McCabe, at 28, has only ever been in love with one man. To her sisters'
exasperation, he's a 19th-century sculptor called Julius Fetherstone.
Starting a new job at Trust Art, Fen dreams of her hero and his missing
masterpiece. Her family and friends hope that she might just meet a living,
breathing man instead.
Matt Holden, turning 30, edits Trust Art's magazine. Newly single, he's
under instruction from his flatmate, the rakish Jake, to stick to flings with
no strings attached. But then he meets Fen...
James Caulfield, not quite 50, is forever fending off the advances of the
women he gardens for in Derbyshire and forever fending off his bank manager.
To improve his finances, he must sell the small Fetherstones he owns. Who
better to advise him than Fen?
From the hustle and bustle of London to the tranquil beauty of Derbyshire,
Fen develops her own north-south divide. Sexual attraction, sculpture and
severe indecision collide. Is it possible to fall in love with two very
different men at the same time?
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Cat ISBN 0-09-927835-9
Published by William Heinemann
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Catriona McCabe, 28, only ever known as Cat, is trying to improve her career as a sports journalist and move on from a failed relationship. What better way to do both than follow the Tour de France one Summer?
From Provence to Paris, up the Pyrenees and over the Alps, Cat and an entourage of podium girls, anxious wives, autocratic team directors and seasoned hacks pursue the ruthless riders. With sex, drugs, lashings of lycra, glistening thighs,large bulges and larger egos, the soap opera that is the Tour de France unfolds with Cat's life frequently mirroring the peaks, perils and pace of the race.
"Freya North is on a roll...stamped with foxy, feelgood flair" - She Magazine
"A funny romantic romp" - Cosmopolitan
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Polly ISBN 0-09 943525-X
Published by Arrow
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Polly Fenton loves her job teaching English in London, and she's mad about Max Fyfield. But she's leaving both behind to embark on a year-long teachers' exchange to Vermont. Swapping Marmite for Hershey bars and Cornflakes for Cheerios is one thing. Trading lives with her American counterpart Jen is quite another.
But the minute Polly's feet touch down Stateside, she's swept off them altogether. When she meets Chip Jonson, school athletic trainer, home thoughts from abroad cease altogether.
Meanwhile, her boyfriend, his brother, her best friend and her replacement are forming quite the cosy foursome. If, by the end of the first term, a certain amount of bed-hopping seems inevitable, who is it to be?
Spanning three terms and two countries, this is a sparky and sassy story of New England and Old England, fidelity and flirtation, receiving one's comeuppance - and making amends.
'Passion, guilt, envy love and sex, topped with lashings of laughs. Freya North has done it again, only better' - Express |
Chloe ISBN 0-09-943526-8
Published by Arrow
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When Chloë Cadwallader's beloved godmother Jocelyn dies, she leaves Chloë a letter instructing her to give up her job (lousy) and her boyfreind (awful) to travel the four countries of the United Kingdom during the four seasons of the year.
Heavens. How can Chloë deny a godmother's last wish?
Off she goes, with a tremor of doubt and a letter marked Wales, to a farm deep in the Black Mountains where she finds an assortment of eccentric animals and the best looking man she's ever laid eyes on.
And as the seasons unfold, so too does Chloë's jouney. From Abergavenny to St Ives, from the Giant's Causeway to the shores of Loch Lomond, join her as she discovers love, lust, life - and a man for each season.
' Read of the month...settle down and indulge' - Cosmopolitan
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Sally ISBN 0-09-943527-6
Published by Arrow
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Meet Sally. A primary school teacher from Highgate, Sally's decided to re-invent herself as femme fatale and all-round sex-goddess. Goodbye Laura Ashley: au revoir M & S undies; hello Erica Jong.
Meet Richard.Thirty-five-year-old architect from Notting Hill, confirmed bachelor and the unknowing target of Sally's masterplan.
She's determined to be the one great erotic heroineof his life. He's going to be her dream affair - no strings, no scone-baking. Just sex and sensuality. Until, that is, a New year masked ball unmasks more than was intended...
From London Zoo to the Pompidou, from tiramisu to I Love You, join Sally and Richard on their roller-coaster ride of self-discovery, self-denial, seduction and spots (proving Sally can't change hers) and in the freshest, funniest first novel of the year.
"Freya North makes serious observations about the fear of the commitment in this funny debut novel" - Womans Journal.
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