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A lyrical tale of family secrets and self-discovery. Denis knows his mother kept things from him. His godmother, Clemence, knows the truth. In rich, sensuous prose, Roberts interweaves Denis's search for answers with Clemence's memories of the time she spent working for Matisse.

A lyrical tale of family secrets and self-discovery. Denis knows his mother kept things from him. His godmother, Clemence, knows the truth. In rich, sensuous prose, Roberts interweaves Denis's search for answers with Clemence's memories of the time she spent working for Matisse.

In the parched soil of Provence, a fifth gospel has been discovered, Mary Magdalene's account of Jesus' teaching and her relationship with him.

Written with warmth and sensitivity, Michele Roberts navigates the difficult road from depression and anxiety to acceptance and understanding of the value of the friendships which nurture her and make life worth living - whatever happens.

The Booker shortlisted author of "Daughters Of The House" gives an honest and intimate account of the year which followed her novel being rejected by her then-publisher.

1851. Joseph Benson is employed by Henry Mayhew to interview London's poor. A family man with mouths to feed, Joseph must coax testimony from prostitutes for Mayhew's newspaper articles on the working classes. Roaming the Southwark streets, he is tempted by brothels' promises of pleasure - yet when he meets Mrs Dulcimer, proprietor of a Walworth boarding house, Joseph's eyes are gradually opened to the complexities of women's lives. One hundre...

This is the story of Julie - the dutiful daughter, the romantic heroine, the perfect wife and mother. But Julie knows she is also the witch, the whore, the madwoman, the lesbian. As her two worlds threaten to collide, she realises she must come to terms with the different aspects of her psyche.

Helen is in conflict with her suburban upbringing, her independence, her creativity, and generations of silence surrounding notions of gender and sexual behaviour. This story is a daring exploration of female sexuality.

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In every war there are stories that do not surface. You can try to forget, but sometimes the past can return: in the scent of a bar of soap, in whispers darting through a village after mass, in the color of an undelivered letter.Jeanne Nerin and Marie-Angèle Baudry grow up side by side in the Catholic village of Ste. Madeleine, but their worlds could not be more different. Marie-Angèle is the grocer's daughter, inflated with ideas of her own p...

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From the Booker-shortlisted author, Michele Roberts, comes an evocative novel which explores the lives of women in Victorian London. Told in 2011 and 1851, the two entwined stories unfold as the two eras brush against each other in a haunting tale of desire, exploitation, loss and isolation.

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After three abruptly ended marriages, Aurora is ready to lose her dreary black trouser-suit and find refuge in the Tuscan sun. It's her new eau de nil frock that she sheds, however, when she finds herself in the hotel room of the disconcertingly magnetic Father Michael. He rides a Harley Davidson, and he may not be a priest at all. One thing is certain, Aurora's radical friend Leonora is now the head of the local convent, even if Aurora can't ...

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Utterly beguiling' Joanna Trollope

A jilted lover skirts the edges of time and place as she walks the streets of London at night, a woman returns to the scene of her honeymoon without her husband, a bereft daughter traces her relationship with her mother as she slowly packs up a house in the aftermath of death.

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