Family life fiction Books

Captain Guy Halliday, Old Etonian, is a Cavalry Officer in the Royal Wessex Dragoon Guards, who sees action at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. Brought up in idyllic rural Somerset by formidable parents, Guy, like Shakespeare's Romeo, looks forward...

Mancano pochi giorni al Natale del 1939, ma quest'anno non sarà come gli altri. Con la dichiarazione di guerra avvenuta solo pochi mesi prima, ogni idea di festeggiamenti è oscurata dalla preoccupazione per i propri cari che sono stati richiamati a...

This the fourth of Valerie Hansard’s books to be published by Grosvenor House Publishing within the last three years. The first was a book of short stories, followed by two novels: Knockramore and The Quarry.On Verity’s Account is set mainly...

On the day that her youngest child leaves home, Alice Hatton discovers two disturbing truths in a matter of hours.The Empty Nest cliche is true.And she does not love her husband Peter at all. Now in her fifties, Alice is appalled to realise that she...

"I've found a new author to love. Her writing was so full of life, so descriptive... so many laugh out loud moments... I can't wait for Ellyn Oaksmith's next book!" Goodreads Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Things are finally working out for Stella Gallagher...

 Could you take in your best friend’s child, even if it risked destroying your own family?Jo had thought that her life – and her heart – was full. With a busy job, a husband and a teenage daughter who is going off the rails,...

Tell your most devastating secret, or risk losing your only daughter…Now: Married again and living in a new town with a new family, Alys feels like she’s sleepwalking through life. She’s just lost her job, her grown-up daughter is...

With love, betrayal and grief disrupting her perfectly peaceful life, will she fight for the happiness she deserves?After the violent death of her husband, Rebecca Holmes is content leading a quiet life spending time with her sisters and niece. When her...

When Rosie Taylor returns to work after a long recovery from a tragic accident, she can't believe how much things have changed for the worse. Not only is there a new HR guy in charge, everybody's fighting to keep their job and there are some new recruits...

It began with a family gathering - it ended in a bloodbath. When the Harrington family rent a private island to celebrate their dad's 70th birthday, old lies resurface, resulting in a murderous revenge. Ben Harrington is stuck. He's recently separated...

The Unwelcome Angel - where it swoops it spreads heartache. An emotionally gripping novella In the winter of 1944, diphtheria is raging through the colliery rows. It is known as the strangling angel because it swoops down and endangers the lives of...

Taking off my favourite striped apron to sit down for our family meal, I know something is wrong the moment the doorbell rings. A chill runs through me as the police officer places handcuffs around my wrists and I see my husband's shocked face. They're...

Periwinkle-blue flowers spill over the picket fence, framing the simple wooden sign that reads Hydrangea House. But Molly's eyes fill with tears. Her grandmother Beverley used to stand right there in the doorway, ready to welcome guests. Now Beverley is...

Dearest E. I thought of you today, like I do every day. I hope you are safe. I'm scared that you are not. And that it's all my fault. But know this forever - I love you. R. x It is summer 1939 and, even in rural Norfolk, no one can ignore the fact...

Growing up, Jake was a shy timid kid. It wasn't long before that person faded away. The traumatic events that occurred in his household and the domestic abuse he saw were too much to bear. He wanted to close his eyes forever, never to see those...

A family reunited after a twenty-year estrangement, will discover secrets that change their lives forever...Pre-order the brand new escapist summer read from international bestseller Jennifer Bohnet!Gabriella Jacques, is happy to be back in her childhood...

After 'ROOM FOR LOVE' and 'ROOM FOR ME' there has to be 'ROOM FOR US'...but how will Julie juggle all the new demands on her young life with her own burning ambitions? She has set up home with Harry, but now there are other men, other women-and a cat!...

"A masterful look at control and manipulation" - Jess KitchingAfter receiving a substantial inheritance, thirty-seven-year-old aspiring writer, Theresa, moves to the High Country of Victoria, Australia, to finally write the novel she had always...

The Proper Place is delightful reading and is Miss O. Douglas at her best. The story deals with the Rutherfurd family, who have to leave their beautiful country house and all their friends on Tweedside and settle in the littler Fife sea town of...

As 14-year-old-Katria watches her father, Ivan, step-by-step sweep his spray of poison brew back to front over the lawn, she imagines the little creatures beneath the fall of his steel- toed boots curling up dead the minute he passes. She imagines his...

A loving and humorous coming-of-age tale of being raised by The Movie Queen.Everly Knight never caught on to the New Math or many other school subjects during her family's frequent moves. She was, however, up to date on Elizabeth Taylor's romances,...

Can she be who she is? Or is it forbidden?What Marsha Melinda Martin once believed she could be has vanished, and she has almost stopped caring.Then a man claiming to be her father comes to town, bringing back memories she thought she had forgotten and...

Audrey Nielsen has lost control. After surviving the worst year of her life, including the loss of her unborn daughter and the discovery that her husband, Timothy, has been unfaithful, her career as a children's author is on its last legs. She decides...

In the dry heat of her Arizona home, feisty, Irish-Catholic Colleen Moretti, thrusts the letter that threatens her marriage into the back of a drawer. This is her default mode: ignore the fault lines until the tremors pass. But her husband Derek's...

The Carnival Chemist offers a powerful collection of stories taken from everyday life and features people who could be your family and friends-or you. Strong, but troubled characters face a range of life and death challenges as they struggle to clarify...

Return to the beloved beach town of Cliffside Bay, where USA Today bestseller Tess Thompson spins another emotional, intriguing tale about overcoming adversity and finding strength in love in this standalone story about Lisa and Rafael. After years...

A TRAILBLAZER IN THE K-9 FICTION GENRE, Kava creates a “dynamic between Ryder and his canines that reveals a world rarely shared in fiction and perhaps nowhere presented more effectively than in this series.” —Phil Jason, Florida...

A Process of Change is the sequel to A Reunion of the Heart, and is the second book of The Victors Series: A Trilogy of Triumph. It answers the questions posed in Book One about Andrew, the patriarch of the Peters family. He has been keeping some pretty...

Martin Delany University has provided home, career, and stability for generations of Bennets. It's 1999 and the latest generation of Bennets prepare for the new millennium, unaware of the changes the year 2000 will bring.For Professor Elizabeth Bennet,...

The border is a hostile place with searing heat and venomous serpents. Yet the deadliest predator targets the innocent.A sniper strikes in the Valley of the Sun and Detective Nathan Parker soon finds a connection between the victims-each of them had a...

Danny and the Corporate Ladder is a story. It is a story a friend tells as the narrator talks about their friend. It is the intersection of the relationships in a person's life. Each of the relationships in this book takes us on a site journey where...

Is she losing her mind or finding herself for the first time? Swapping her corporate laptop for a meditation mat, one woman embarks on a reluctant journey to find out.

Twin sisters Bronka and JoJo Lubinski are brought to America from Germany by their Polish refugee parents after World War II-but in "idyllic" America, political, cultural, and family turmoil awaits them. As the girls grow older, they eventually begin to...

In this suspense thriller, identical twin sisters Anjali Murphy and Riah Arora are reunited in their thirties after being separated at birth, only to find themselves caught up in a deadly con game that tests the fine line between sisterly loyalty and...

"A well-crafted tale about trauma and miracles." -Kirkus ReviewsNicky Covo is a Holocaust survivor. In 1990, Nicky - a Brooklyn psychiatrist - receives a letter from Abbess Fevronia, the head of a women's monastery in Greece. Although Nicky believes the...

John Roberts has the risky habit of infidelity, but it isn’t adult John Roberts running his life, it’s John the indignant and angry teenager. At 17, his secret girlfriend becomes pregnant, and both fathers put an end to the relationship...

Tom Ryan Jr. is locked up in the Alzheimer's Unit of Peaceful Harbor Nursing Home. His father, Tom Ryan Sr., died on the 8-by-10-foot Astro Turf in the recreation room of the same nursing home. Sadly, Tom Sr. passed along the Alzheimer's gene to his...

The importance of baseball in the author's life is evident in his short story "The Legacy of the Diamond." I park the Dodge station wagon in front of Graceland Cemetery, where Chicago history is carved into large granite tombstones. Famous names...

Isaac Unbound is a work of fiction that fills in the details of the life and character of biblical Isaac. People read about Isaac in Gen 17:4--28:9, and conclude he is passive and not an independent thinker. Isaac is not the iconoclast or spiritual...

Iona and Audrey emit smoke signals when they need help, but sometimes it takes more than water to put them out.Iona thought she would sip mimosas while relaxing on a beach in retirement, but instead she suffers from loneliness as vacation brochures...

This story is about a young boy who grew up with nothing he worked hard his whole young life and still had nothing until one day he got a break from a farmer's wife. He promised her he would put a crop in the field and harvest that crop in good time if...

Love speaks from the heart. From the heart to the hands. When in the hands, love creates significant recipes to bring joy into the life of others. The ingredients are coupled with memories, hope, collaboration, and joy. Sprinkled with strength, care and...

"My only complaint is that I wanted more, which is a good complaint to have. It made me laugh and cry and then laugh again and then pee and then cry. Lots of fluids lost. But in a good way. A book to make you appreciate the tragically funny and beautiful...

Love forbidden by prejudice; death at the hands of unbridled hate; and a family history expunged because of societal inequities are the secrets unlocked when the identity of Charlotte Wickham is revealed.The saga begins with Danny finding Charlotte's...

An aged, decrepit old woman wanders the quiet hallways of her home. She remembers a day when they were brighter…more kinetic with anticipation of life within their walls. Family was a regular occurrence and the tinkling laughter of grandchildren...

Canadian Family Adventures follows the tale of ten Irish siblings who immigrate to Canada in the late 1880’s. Their mother, Maggie Collins, wants her children, between the ages of 10 years old and 30 years old, to have a good life and she arranges...

• Once upon a time, he was a heartthrob, on top of the world, finally with the woman he loved• Ever since he saw Joy across the street, at fifteen, he couldn’t take his eyes off her• Their fiery passion and attitude were a match for...

The plot of “Jacklighters” unfolds in the fictitious small Illinois town of Silverton, where life is normally quaint and peaceful. When Riley Jensen hears that Len Wilkins, a family friend who also employs her father as a farm hand, has been...