Poppy Sinclair is approaching fifty, and mostly loves her life; teaching young children, living in her Auckland home, intimately connected to family and friends. After a fairytale romance with Kate ends tragically, she reshapes her life to living alone. Still, you can't shut out love, and with the arrival of a surprise visitor, anything can happen. An evocative look like at life and love,...

Pat Rosier’s second book about Poppy sees her confronting two life crises at once: death and love vie for her attention. She travels to Yorkshire where she must take on the role of carer to her dying father. And in Yorkshire, there is also Jane… For all her family it’s a time when difficult and poignant emotions emerge – when old hurts must be put aside and new bonds forged. For Poppy it...

From the author of the acclaimed Godmothers comes a new and startling novel. Beginning in the South Pacific and stretching back to a Mediterranean past, Sandi Hall explores a friendship that could affect the history of the world. When Dory Previn asked Did Jesus have a sister? Sandi Hall discovered that he did.

Set against the escalating violence of the last years of the Apartheid regime, Safe Houses tells the story of three families – the Sibiyas, the Singers, the Sterns – who are inextricably bound by love and hate, hope and betrayal. Ruth and Lola are drawn into the struggle against Apartheid, but feel marginal: it is difficult to find solutions when one is part of the problem. Can love and hope...