On holiday in Morocco, Charlie finds himself in a house that is instantly familiar to him. The vivid memories it holds transport him back to his childhood in London, when he first met Amira, the girl next door. It also recalls his first time in Morocco when having just obtained his language degree in Spain, he visited the Amira’s family, now...

A novel based on the intertwined lives of Margaret MacDonald & Charles Rennie Mackintosh. War has broken out and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is in self-imposed exile from his native Glasgow, painting wildflowers in watercolour in a sleepy Suffolk village. As a man from ‘foreign parts’, however, he falls prey to the suspicions of...

Eleanor’s son, Luke, left home on a “gap year” and never returned, cutting all ties and ending all contact. He had just come out to her as gay, which was so in conflict with her strong religious beliefs, that she disowned him – something she comes to regret when Luke’s father dies and she has no way of letting their son know. So she sets off on...