The Splendour Falls ... is about claustrophobia in all its forms. ... is told in two voices, and is a convoluted affair. Lou is "adopted" by a wealthy French family with the view of grooming her as a...

It is the Fab Fifties, precursor to the Swinging Sixties. Our heroine, a newly-qualified teacher by day, a Soho Boho by night, sets off on the night ferry to France with the Coffee Bar Crowd for a weekend...

Julia Simmons, mother of nine year old Mandy, and a teacher at the village school, has been divorced for a year. Julia, in self-defence, has distanced herself from the villagers, her neighbours and also...