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Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams....

Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded scholar, she becomes inordinately interested....

Paul Sturgis is a retired bank manager who lives alone in a dark little flat. He walks alone and dines alone, seeking out and taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers....

When cautious Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into 17th century garden design, she finds a reliable diversion from her studies....

Born in 1948 and unready for the sixties, they had high hopes of the lives they would lead....

Hartmann was a German, Fibich an orphan of World War II. Forty years on their friendship endures....

As the solitary child of mild and gentle parents, Jane is fascinated and astounded by her exotically European aunt, Dolly....

When Rachel becomes involved in the lives of the Livingstones it is with an acute appreciation of their home - beautifully furnished and richly decorated....

Fay Langdon and Julia Morton might have met far earlier, since Fay was once a successful singer and Julia a famous diseuse. From the outset, theirs is a precarious friendship....

Born to elegant but frivolous parents, Harriet grows up ignored and unguided, and retains a curious innocence....