Amanda Brookfield

• Oct-1989
• / Women's Fiction
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'No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield' The Mirror On the day that her youngest child leaves home, Alice Hatton discovers two disturbing truths in a matter of hours.The Empty Nest cliche is true.And she d...

• Feb-1991
• / General Fiction
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• May-2001
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Frances married her husband the ten year age gap seemed nothing to worry about. But twenty years later Paul's death in middle age leaves Frances a widow at only forty-three. One life is over. Is there a new one about to begin? It seems so wh...

• Oct-2002
• / Historical Romance
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‘The novel walks a line between comedy and wrenching sadness. It is fluently written and its depiction of domestic chaos … is all too recognisable’ Sunday TimesA Family Man tells the story of thirty one year old Matt Webster, who arrives home f...

• May-2006
• / General Fiction
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For some families, a year can feel like a lifetime.The Harrisons were always a close-knit family.But with the grandchildren fast becoming adults and elderly Pamela struggling to adapt to widowhood, the four children of the middle generation find them...

• Jan-2008
• / General Fiction
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Amanda's latest novel tells the story of 39-year-old Charlotte Turner, trying to get her life back on track after a miserable marriage. She discovers in the process that readiness to embrace a better future is not in itself a reliable route to happi...

• Oct-2019
• / Women's Fiction
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*Shortlisted for The People's Book Prize*'No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield.' The MirrorWho can you trust with your darkest secrets...Everyone that meets Kat Keating is mesmerised. Beautiful, smart an...

• Oct-2020
• / Women's Fiction
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'An engaging, emotionally-charged and intriguing story' Michelle Gorman On a normal day, in a normal house, on a normal street, wife and mother Fran has had enough.She packs a case, leaves a note for her bullying husband Pete, and one for her beloved...

• Jan-2021
• / Women's Fiction
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The Harrison family gathers as usual for Christmas in their big Sussex house.This year, however, outside realities are pressing hard: Pamela and John, married for four decades, know that time is catching up with them. And trouble is brewing in the li...

• Aug-2022
• / Women's Fiction
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'An engaging, emotionally-charged and intriguing story' Michelle Gorman Two decades on from a passionate courtship and marriage, Lucas and Esther are getting divorced.For Esther, it’s proving hard not to feel bitter watching Lucas enjoying his succ...

• May-2023
• / General Fiction
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'An engaging, emotionally-charged and intriguing story' Michelle Gorman ‘Stop trying to be brave all the time, Rachel. Fear is a necessary part of being alive. Sometimes we have to let it show. We have to own up to it or it drives us mad.’Rachel ...

• Aug-2023
• / Women's Fiction
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'No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield' The Mirror 'In the weeks that followed, Jane did her best not to think about anything very much. Usually, it worked. But every so often she would freeze, and trembl...

• Oct-2024
• / Women's Fiction
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When Janine and Dougie fell in love they thought it would be for ever.Fifteen years later their relationship is well and truly over, their daughter Stevie their one remaining connection.Stevie is on the cusp of adulthood. At sixteen, she's not quite ...

• Dec-2024
• / Women's Fiction
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'No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield.' The MirrorEver since the death of their father twenty years before, beautiful thirty-two-year-old Anna has acted as her younger sister Becky’s support, playing t...

• / General Fiction
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Would you swap houses with a family of strangers? The price you pay might be greater than you think...Sophie and Andrew are looking for relief from the daily grind - if not each other - so when a friend puts them in touch with William and Beth, newly...