Every lover has her story, and every town has its secrets.It's 1946 in New Zealand, and Alice Holden has fallen for the woman delivering her milk every morning. Jean has a way about her, a swagger, honey-sweet...

The heart has its own language.Summer in January. Birds with unknown songs. People with strange accents.In 1932, Eliza Sparrow walks straight off the boat from England to New Zealand into a nightmare....

In 1941 May Lewis is looking for a fresh start. Leaving the city and an old love affair behind, she buys a medical practice in a small country town. Here she hopes to find peace, friendships, and the...

Fran is a successful single woman with friends, a social life, and a bookshop. If there is anything she feels is lacking - well there is always time for that later. She's content, even if she hasn't found...