A poignant and breathtaking novel from the author of The Things We Keep and The Secrets of Midwives. All their lives, Alice Stanhope and her daughter, Zoe, have

Alice and her daughter Zoe have been a team of two all their lives. With no family to speak of, and the identity of Zoe's father shrouded in mystery, they've ne

Three women, one girl and the vow that binds them. Alice and her daughter Zoe have been a team of two all their lives. They've never needed anyone else - until

When I wrote the ‘Frugal Housewife,’ some booksellers declined publishing it, on account of the great variety of cookery books already in the market. I was

If questions of subjectivity and identification are at stake in all biographical writing, they are particularly trenchant for contemporary women biographers of