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Annabel and Her Sisters

The Pink House

The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton

The emotionally gripping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Behind Closed Doors

Wish You Were Here

A Cornish Summer

About Last Night . . .

One Day in May

A Rural Affair

The Wedding Day

A Crowded Marriage

A Married Man

Not That Kind of Girl

Going Too Far

The Old-Girl Network

Olivia's Luck

Rosie Meadows Regrets...

The Real Thing

My Husband Next Door

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Charming, clever, well-written, laugh-out-loud funny with a great plot

Another huge treat from Catherine Alliott.  It's hilarious yet poignant, with wonderful characters, including all the animals!  I lapped up every page

The heartwarming and emotionally gripping novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

When Ella married the handsome, celebrated artist Sebastian Montclair at just nineteen she was madly in love. Now, those blissful years of marriage have turned into the very definition of an unconventional set-up. Separated in every way but distance, Sebastian resides in an outhouse across the lawn from Ella's ramshackle farmhouse. 
 
Then out of the blue Sebastian decides he must move away, catching Ella horribly unawares. How much longer can she hide from what really destroyed her marriage . . . and the secret she continues to keep?

Step into Alliott country with the fabulously funny and wonderfully heartwarming story from the bestselling author of A Cornish Summer and Behind Closed Doors 
 
'I raced through it, completely gripped from start to finish' DAILY MAIL 
 
'An entertaining read that's as light as the summer breeze' DAILY EXPRESS 
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A modern marriage, or a big mistake? 
 
Ella was nineteen and madly in love when she married dashing young artist Sebastian Montclair. But that was a long time ago. Now Ella and the kids live in a ramshackle farmhouse while Sebastian and his paintings inhabit the outhouse next door - a family separated in every way but distance. Is it a marvellously modern relationship - or a disaster waiting to happen? 
 
 When charming gardener Ludo arrives on the scene and Sebastian makes a sudden and surprising decision, Ella sees a chance at a fresh start. Yet with two teenagers and her parents on the verge of their own late-life crisis, will Ella be allowed to choose her own path? And how long can she hide from the truth which haunts her broken marriage? 
 
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'A captivating and heartwarming tale' Closer

Catherine Alliott is the author of seventeen bestselling novels including My Husband Next Door, A Rural Affair, One Day in May, The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton, and A Cornish Summer and Behind Closed Doors. She lives with her family in Hertfordshire.

My Husband Next Door

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Charming, clever, well-written, laugh-out-loud funny with a great plot

Hilarious and full of surprises

Compulsively readable

Another huge treat from Catherine Alliott. It's hilarious yet poignant, with wonderful characters, including all the animals! I lapped up every page

Captivating and heartwarming

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