Elfrida Swann, a struggling portrait painter known to everyone as Freddie, is about to marry Alex Moncrieff, a successful barrister. Preparations for the great day, arranged with magnificent extravagance by her smart stepmother, are on schedule. The ...
Victoria Clayton is the much admired and loved author whose last book was Running Wild. Her writing has been compared to Anita Shreve and Elizabeth Buchan, and HarperCollins are delighted to welcome her to the list with this novel. The Byng family, t...
Miranda Stowe seems to have everything â€" looks, brains, three children and a beautiful manor house in Kent. When she finds her husband dead, shot in the chest, her friends’ verdict is that Fortune has turned against one of her darlings. But throu...