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Three women in their 70s – bruised by life, discarded by society, bursting with anger – reunite for one last, life-changing weekend. Sylvie, Jude, Wendy and Adele have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank and steadfast. But when Sylvie dies, the ground shifts dangerou...

Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by the mysterious Edwin Carson, a collector of precious stones, to a weekend party at his country house, Thrackley. The house is gloomy and forbidding but the party is warm and hospitable - except for the presence of Jacobson, the sinister butler. The o...

Some people stay all summer on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Others come for the weekends, and the mix between them can sometimes make sparks fly. When Riley Griggs is waiting for her husband to arrive at the ferry one Friday afternoon, she is instead served with papers inform...

Having lost her longtime pet dog, Massachusetts journalist Luttrell volunteers to help train service dogs on the weekends; the rest of the week, the animals are taught by inmates as part of the Prison PUP program.

Big Billy Brennan has suffered the greatest tragedy a parent can know - he has just lost his eldest son. His family is falling apart with grief, and his marriage is a partnership in name alone. Billy is also obese: at 400 pounds he can barely walk down the street without breaking a sweat. In his ...

Although 33 year old Kara Moon loves her hometown of Hartmouth in Cornwall, she has always wondered if she should have followed her dream of leaving to study floristry. But she couldn't bring herself to leave her emotionally delicate single father, and has worked on Ferry Lane Market's flower sta...

The Pine Creek Motel has seen better days. Henny would call it charming, but she's always seen the best in things. Like now, when she's just met an untimely end crossing the road. She's not going to let a tiny thing like death stop her from living fully - not when her friends and family need her ...

Maggie went to the window and opened it wide, inhaling the lovely salt air off the sea. Why had she never lived by the sea before? Why had she always looked out on housing estates and not the little white hulls of trawlers bobbing off in the distance? It’s gloriously sunny in Cornwall as the scho...

To outsiders, David and Virginia Hall are a golden couple, living expensively with exquisite taste and glamorous friends. But in reality they are perfectly imperfect - living a lie of false love. When Isabel is born, David pours all his love into her; she looks set to inherit not only wealth and ...