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When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers. As Dee looks back over her time in the Master's Lodging - an eerie and ancient house - a picture of a high achieving but dysfunctional family emerges: Nick, the fiercely intelligent and powerful father; his beautiful Danish wife Mariah, pregnant with their child; and the lost little girl, Felicity, almost mute, seeing ghosts, grieving her dead mother. 

Kali hatte immer ein kühles Verhältnis zu ihrer Mutter. Nach deren Tod findet sie einen Stapel Postkarten - alle von einer Frau namens Susannah, alle mit demselben Text. Wer ist Susannah, und was weiß sie über Kalis Mutter? Mit ihrem kleinen Sohn Finn reist sie auf die abgelegene Insel vor der Küste Kanadas, auf der Susannah lebt. Doch die rätselhafte Frau weigert sich, von damals zu erzählen, und als Kali selbst Nachforschungen anstellt, verhält sich Susannah immer befremdlicher. Am verstörendsten ist ihr großes Interesse an Finn.

Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve the life she loves, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and historian, three children and a talented husband. But as she stands before a crowd at the launch of her new best seller, she can barely pretend to smile. Her life has spiralled into deceit, and if the truth comes out, she will lose everything. Only one person knows what Olivia has done.

Kali hatte immer ein kühles Verhältnis zu ihrer Mutter. Nach deren Tod findet sie einen Stapel Postkarten - alle von einer Frau namens Susannah, alle mit demselben Text. Wer ist Susannah, und was weiß sie über Kalis Mutter? Mit ihrem kleinen Sohn Finn reist sie auf die abgelegene Insel vor der Küste Kanadas, auf der Susannah lebt. Doch die rätselhafte Frau weigert sich, von damals zu erzählen, und als Kali selbst Nachforschungen anstellt, verhält sich Susannah immer befremdlicher.

The loss of her mother has left Kali McKenzie with too many unanswered questions. But while clearing out Elena's art studio, she finds a drawer packed with postcards, each bearing an identical one-line message from a Canadian gallery owner called Susannah Gillespie: thinking of you. Who is this woman and what does she know about Elena's hidden past? Desperate to find out, Kali travels with her toddler, Finn, to Susannah's isolated home on a remote British Columbian island, a place of killer whales and storms.

Sometimes a lie seems kinder than the truth...but what happens when that lie destroys everything you love? When Tess is sent to photograph Greg, a high-profile paediatric heart surgeon, she sees something troubled in his face and feels instantly drawn to him. Their relationship quickly deepens, but then Tess, single mother to nine-year-old Joe, falls pregnant, and Greg is offered the job of a lifetime back in his hometown of Boston.

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In the 1970s, a single night in a remote hunting lodge with a Hollywood director and his leading lady causes an international scandal that wrecks Astrid's glittering stage career and rips apart her marriage. Her ex-husband, Scottish actor Magnus Fellowes, finds global fame, while Astrid retreats to a Sussex windmill. Now 82, she lives there still, with a troupe of dachshunds and her loyal friend, Mrs Baker, who came to clean over twenty years ago, and never left. But Mrs Baker has a troubled past too. There has been an 'Awful Incident' at the windmill; police are sniffing around.