Honor And Evie

"Charming and beguiling" - Penny Vincenzi

Penny Vincenzi fans will devour this - unputdownable

If you loved Four Weddings and a Funeral, this novel about a circle of glamorous friends, their tragedies and loves is definitely for you

An engaging tale of lust, money and finding love in unexpected places

Susannah Bates was born in Suffolk in 1970. She practised law in the City until she gave up to become a full-time writer. She is also the author of Charmed Lives and All about Laura and lives in London.

Honor and Evie: cousins and best friends, yet so very different. Honor is intelligent, beautiful and popular - good fortune seems to fall into her lap. But for Evie life is harder. 
 
Honor adores Evie for her unconventionality, her honesty and her naughty sense of humour - although others find Evie prickly and impatient. And Evie loves Honor for her calmness, her loyalty and absolute integrity - traits that some might find a little too predictable, even a little dull... 
 
But as Honor and Evie leave girlhood behind, their friendship is tested to its limit. Can they still remain close when their choices and ideals are so very different? Or are these women destined to grow in opposite directions, grow up and grow apart?

All About Laura

The irresistible new novel by the highly acclaimed author of Charmed Lives

Susannah Bates was born in Suffolk in 1970. She practised law in the City until she gave up to become a full-time writer. Her first novel, Charmed Lives, was published to great acclaim in 2001.  She lives in London.

Mel Ashton - hardworking and responsible - is tired of her image.  Bored with her flat and exasperated by her job, Mel is thinking about making a few changes to her life.  The only thing she's not planning to quit is her relationship with David. The trouble is that David - a talented artist - likes Mel just the way she is.  He likes her rational approach to life.  He is impressed by her ambition, and her calm presence provides the perfect antidote to his unstable intensity.  With Mel, David is finally growing up - and he's even growing out of his adolescent obsession with women called Laura. Ten years ago David met an artists' model called Laura.  But, intimidated by her beauty, he never approached her-and an obsession was born.  A whole string of Lauras followed, and his perfect women was always a Laura until he met Mel. But Mel is changing.  And when Edmund, David's elder brother, recommends David to his friend Joss, who wants a portrait painted of his new wife, David's relationship with Mel becomes more precarious than either of them could have imagined.  For Joss's wife is the original Laura-

Charmed Lives

Susannah Bates was born in Suffolk in 1970. She practised law in the City until she gave up to become a full-time writer. She is the author of Charmed Lives and All about Laura and lives in London.

Beautiful, wild and wanton but do they really lead Charmed Lives? Kate Leonard is a high-flying young lawyer. Smart, sexy and successful, she seems to have it all, except a life outside the office ... until she meets Tom Faulkener.Tom comes from a different world: the privileged, idle world of private incomes, breathtaking bills and the pursuit of pleasure. The last thing he wants is a relationship ... until he meets Kate. But as Kate tries to juggle her hectic existence with the temptations of Tom's exclusive circle - irresponsible society photographer Charlie, shy but kind-hearted Douglas, and Tom's lovely but neurotic ex-wife Arabella - she begins to see through the careless glamour of their charmed lives...

Susannah Bates

An exceptionally good read ... and one that will definitely find a place on my bookshelf for a second read in the future

Talented Marianne and gregarious Gabby have been friends since college. It feels natural to go into business together, selling Marianne's unique jewelry designs, and their family ties become closer when Marianne falls in love with charismatic stone-dealer, Jay, Gaby's half-brother. But as their company takes off, Gabby's contribution becomes more questionable, and while she remains single, troubled and fragile, Marianne is blossoming at work and in her private life and she is expecting Jay's baby. 
 
Then her ex-boyfriend Paul walks back into her life in search of an engagement ring for his homely new fiancée and sets off a train of events none of them could have imagined. Marianne discovers to her cost that, like the beautiful stones she works with, relationships too can hold fatal hidden flaws and there are unexpected fault-lines in her world. In the tropical heat of southern Sri Lanka, she begins to see that the finest quality often lies buried in unlikely places, and to realize that someone she once easily dismissed might be the only person who can save her...

Susannah Bates

Praise for Under a Sapphire Sky

An exceptionally good read ... and one that will definitely find a place on my bookshelf for a second read in the future

A beautiful tale

Books by Susannah Bates

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