Valerie Mendes

• Jan-2001
• / General Fiction
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• Jul-2002
• / Romance
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Valerie Mendes' gripping, fast-moving novel explores the whirlpools of change in teenagers' lives, the strengths of friendship, and the inescapable, binding pull of love. Thirteen-year-old Nathan is furious when his mum hauls him off to Cornwall for ...

• Jun-2004
• / General Fiction
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After the death of his beloved grandmother - his only family - Daniel feels lost and alone. People move into his house, rubbing salt into the wound. But then he meets Laura, whose loneliness matches his. Might she become his surrogate grandmother? An...

• Aug-2005
• / Romance
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Sixteen-year-old Jenna wants to dance - not just in dance class or in her bedroom, but professionally, in London, under the eyes of the best teachers in the world. But a fatal accident blows her family and Cornish life apart and, guilty and grief-str...

• Aug-2011
• / Literary
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In the tradition of THE FORSYTE SAGA, a sweeping historical novel that spans three generations, telling the dark secrets of a family torn apart. Larkswood House. The very name suggests birdsong, peace and elegance. It is home to the Hamilton childr...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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When her mother is killed in a riding accident, nine-year-old Amy is left mute and traumatized. She was there, but she cannot remember what happened and is haunted by a nightmare that she cannot fully explain. Gradually her voice returns, but not her...

• May-2017
• / Historical
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“Find Moira for me. Tell her I’m sorry.” These are Walter Drummond’s dying words to his daughter, Eleanor, on his deathbed in Woodstock in 1936. Eleanor has never heard the name Moira before, and she dare not even say it to her mother. Yet sh...

• Feb-2021
• / Historical Romance
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When Beatrice married Victor Davenport she intended to have his children. He's a wealthy banker, used to getting his own way. Neither of them bargained for one summer's evening and its unexpected guest. Set in London, New York and Oxfordshire in 1911...

• Feb-2021
• / Historical
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"Find Moira for me. Tell her I'm sorry." When Eleanor's father lies on his deathbed, these are his instructions. They become an obsession, leading Eleanor from Somerville College Oxford and her home in Woodstock to a cottage in Cornwall. Who does she...