Having sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl. The Emersons, with their seven adult children, have a reputation for craziness, and Elizabeth finds herself drawn into their disorderly lives...
After the loss of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon neatly folds his anguish back into place and adapts the household on to more efficient lines. But with the arrival of Muriel, an eccentric and vulnerable dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clin...
The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste. From the sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counter-culture jargon of the sixties, from...
When Joe Davitch first saw Rebecca, it was at a party at the Davitch home. Young Rebecca looked to Joe like the girl having more fun than anyone in the room and he wanted some of that happiness to spill over onto him, a 33-year-old divorce with three litt...
Barnaby Gaitlin is a loser - just short of thirty, he's the black sheep of a philanthropic Baltimore family. Once upon a time, he had a home, a loving wife, a little family of his own; now he has an ex-wife, a 9-year old daughter with attitude. This...
Tells of the Peck family's search for its own deepest roots, from the ragtime era at the end of the last century to small-town America in the mid-Seventies. This is a story of growing up and breaking away, of rebellion and acceptance.
In a Southern town, teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she carves his name on her forehead their two lives become entwined. The author also wrote
The past and present of 35-year-old Charlotte Emory, burdened with the possessions and emotional clutter of everyday life, unfolds during a journey to Florida with a young man who has taken her hostage. By the author of