Lucy Atkins

Forget unrealistic childcare manuals - this is the book you really need to help you cope brilliantly with those first chaotic days and months ahead. As a health journalist and mother-of-three, Lucy Atkins is familiar with both the medical aspects of childbirth and baby development, and the reality of day-to-day life as an exhausted first-time mum or dad. In her feisty, humorous style, she begins with that first mind-blowing day and addresses the issues...

Sturmumtoste Inseln, die Magie von Walen und ein aufwühlendes Drama 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...

"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 bestseller she can barely pretend to smile. Her life has spiraled into deceit, and if the truth comes out, she'll lose everything. Only one person knows what Olivia has done. Vivian Tester is the socially awkward sixty-year-old...

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. Before she...