A widower, a grieving mother and a homeless woman have one thing in common - a cemetery.Willow, a concert violinist, begins each morning by playing her son the lullaby she wrote for him at his tomb. The melody enchants Peter during his daily visit to his wife?s grave. The homeless woman, who finds refuge in the cemetery, is equally drawn to the haunting music.Like a violin concerto, the story unfolds in three movements, unexpectedly intertwining the...

The Fianc�e - Belinda's life is in free-fall after the sudden death of her fianc� Andy. But then ghostly signs begin to appear which suggest he might not really be gone. And Belinda begins to tumble even further. Will his final parting gift be enough to save her? The Mother - Evelyn McGavin, Andy's mum, is also struggling. She copes with her sorrow by shoplifting (once), hating Belinda (constantly) and jumping out of a plane. In her skydiving...

'Warm?, witty but also heart-wrenching read' - Red Magazine 'This heart-warming and creative contemporary fiction is a story of unexpected self-discovery.'- Woman's Weekly 'Full of heart and depth.' - Prima Book of the Month 'Funny, heart-warming read - it made me laugh and cry' - Nikki Smith, author of The Beach Party 'Eleanor Oliphant meets About a Boy' - Gillian Harvey 'A beautiful read full of heart and depth' - Nina Pottell, Prima Magazine 'An...

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock ... midnight. The old millennium turns into the new. In the same hospital, two very different women give birth to two very similar daughters. Hope leaves with a beautiful baby girl. Anna leaves with empty arms. Seventeen years later, the gods who keep watch over broken-hearted mothers wreak mighty revenge and the truth starts rolling, terrible and deep, toward them all. The power of mother-love will be tested to its...

'The best lives leave a mark.' Mara?s island is one of stories and magic, but every story ends in the same way. She will finish her days on the cliff, turned to stone and gazing out at the horizon like all the islanders before her. Mara?s parents - a boxer and a ballerina - chose this enchanted place as a refuge from the turbulence of their previous lives; they wanted to bring up their children somewhere special and safe. But the island and the sea...

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old...