Pregnant by accident, kicked out of home by her father, 27-year-old Jane Graham goes to ground in the sort of place she feels she deserves - a bug-ridden boarding-house attic in Fulham. She thinks she wants to hide from the world, but finds out that even at the bottom of the heap, friends and love can still be found, and self-respect is still worth fighting for.

‘While the social climate has changed drastically since publication, a transgressive frisson still crackles from the pages'

The Guardian

Jane has come a long way from the L-shaped room, to which she fled, ousted from home, pregnant and frightened. In this final novel, she now has a new career, new friends and a new love. But is any of this right for the growing son who is now the one who matters most? Is it right for her?

Jane decides she doesn't want to be a burden to anyone - least of all to her lover, Toby. She has exchanged the L-shaped room of the earlier novel for a remote country cottage where, solitary but not yet lonely, she nurses her baby son. Dottie, an old friend, raring to start a business to help her own bid for independence, erupts into Jane’s idyll and brings her back to real, challenging life.

The four surviving children of Rev. Patrick Bronte, living in Howarth Parsonage on the edge of the Yorkshire moors, entertain themselves in secret with wild fantasies, games and writings. But as they grow up, their father’s poverty makes it necessary for them to ‘go upon the world’ to supplement the family income.

This classic story of three unique young women whose novels and poetry, born of their strange lives and brilliant talent, have long outlived them, is retold here in novel form.

Path to the Silent Country is a thrilling fictionalised biography of Charlotte Brontë: beautifully written literary fiction set in nineteenth century Yorkshire revealing the real tragedy of the author of the best-loved novels Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley and The Professor.

'Lynne Reid Banks communicates her story with clarity and conviction that establish her among the noblest of factual fiction writers'

The Guardian

With her marriage at breaking point and worrying she is failing in her relationships with her teenage sons, Sue McClusky is at a crossroads.

So when Mariolain, an old friend of Sue’s, suggests the whole family come to stay with her in The Netherlands, Sue accepts immediately.

Sue and Cal soon see their own troubles reflected in the marriage of Mariolain and her husband Niels.

But as confidences grow between the couples, it becomes clear that the Dutch couple’s problems are more deep-seated than Sue could have ever imagined.

Following the breakdown of her marriage and the tragic death of her young son, Gerda Shaffer has exiled herself to one of the poorest areas of Israel. Struggling to find a purpose in life, she has fallen into a desperate cycle of drink and depression.

Her only friend is Kofi, an itinerant Arab house-painter. Kofi, with the help of his charming half-Jewish daughter Hanna, gradually brings Gerda back from the brink.

Judy and Harriet are kindred spirits, sharing an interest in people, a sense of humour and passionate commitment to their respective causes - anti-Apartheid and the Catholic Church. As these causes fade, the two women find themselves changing places.

It is the start of an unconventional friendship, a friendship that forces both women to question their beliefs — and ultimately seek the life the other has…

Depressed by her rural upbringing, Maggie Robertson dreams of leading the glamorous life of an actress in London. However, her father expects her to stay at home and learn to take care of the family.

When Maggie secretly gets a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, everything changes. And with each step towards adulthood, the warning bell of her conscience chimes.

Are friends and family worth sacrificing for her freedom? Will her own son become disposable on the road to success?

London and Israel, 1960s.

Tired of sleepwalking through life, Martha Fletcher applies for a job as secretary to the temperamental writer Aaron Franks.

Life under the thumb of his domineering sister has made a cynical and selfish man of Aaron … yet there’s something about him that draws Martha irresistibly.

Set against the dual backdrops of swinging ’60s London and Israel, An End to Running is moving and thought-provoking historical literary novel of personal growth and shattered relationships.