The Rose Petal Beach

Truly Madly Guilty

Liane Moriarty · 505 pages

Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It’s just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. If there’s anything they can count on, it’s each other. Clementine and Erika are

The Sunday Wife

Cassandra King · 537 pages

She's been married to a Methodist minister for 20 years, but Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of a "Sunday wife." When she becomes friends with Augusta Holderfield, Augusta challenges Dean to break free from her traditional role as the preacher's wife. Just as Dean is questioning everything she has always valued, a tragedy occurs, providing the catalyst for change

Goodnight Nobody

Jennifer Weiner · 376 pages

Watermelon

Marian Keyes · 614 pages

February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is lef

One Small Act of Kindness

Lucy Dillon · 512 pages

Libby and her husband Jason have moved back to his hometown to turn the family B & B into a boutique hotel. They have left London behind and all the memories - good and bad - that went with it. The injured woman Libby finds lying in the remote country road has lost her memory. She doesn't know why she came to be there, and no one seems to be looking for her. When Libby offers to take her in, this

Eight Hundred Grapes

Laura Dave

Open House

Elizabeth Berg · 241 pages

Prayers and Lies

Sherri Wood Emmons · 312 pages

When seven-year-old Bethany first meets six-year-old cousin Reana Mae during a yearly family trip to West Virginia's Coal River Valley, it's the beginning of a kinship of misfits that saves both from a bone-deep loneliness. But as Bethany grows older, secrets in the small, close-knit community start coming to light with devastating effect.

After You

Julie Buxbaum · 368 pages

The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author of The Opposite of Love, delivers a haunting, gloriously written novel about love, family, and the secrets we hide from each other--and ourselves.It happened on a tree-lined street in Notting Hill to a woman who seemed to have the perfect life. Ellie L

Left Neglected

Lisa Genova · 416 pages

Big little lies

Jean-Marc Vallée, Liane Moriarty · 420 pages

Burnt Mountain

Anne Rivers Siddons · 325 pages

Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her first love...and first heartbreak. Years later, Thayer marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and they move into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, only miles from Camp Edgewood on B

Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Cafe

Milly Johnson · 513 pages

Marsha McLeod has always supported her husband through thick and thin; she is the wind beneath his wings. She's known for years that he has a mistress but has never confronted him, terrified that if she gives him an ultimatum, she'll be left on her own. The only thing she has been able to find solace is in chocolate - munching her way through the boxes that her husband brings her after a guilty we

Where We Belong

Emily Giffin · 384 pages

Her carefully constructed life thrown into turmoil by the appearance of an eighteen-year-old girl with ties to her past, New York television producer Marian Caldwell is swept up in a maelstrom of personal discovery that changes both of their perceptions about family.

You, Me and Other People

Fionnuala Kearney · 427 pages

You think you can imagine the worst thing that could happen to your family, but there are some secrets that change everything. And then the question is, how can you piece together a future when your past is being rewritten?

The Perfect Summer

Luanne Rice · 429 pages

Bay McCabe relishes life's simple pleasures, her children, her home by the sea, and her husband, Sean, splits his energy between the town bank, his old fishing boat, and the family he seems to adore- until he leaves his daughter stranded after school: as troubling memories resurface, a phone call confirms that Sean is missing.

Love in Mid Air

Kim Wright · 312 pages

A chance encounter with a stranger on an airplane sends Elyse Bearden into an emotional tailspin. Suddenly Elyse is willing to risk everything: her safe but stale marriage, her seemingly perfect life in an affluent Southern suburb, and her position in the community. She finds herself cutting through all the instincts that say "no" and instead lets "yes" happen. As Elyse embarks on a risky affair,

The Betrayals

Fiona Neill · 396 pages

Best friends Rosie and Lisa's families had always been inseparable. But that summer, Lisa had an affair with Rosie's husband, Nick. None of them would forget that week on the wild Norfolk seacoast. --Jacket.

The Missing Husband

Amanda Brooke · 433 pages

Is not knowing worse than knowing the truth? He had a secret ... Jo is five months pregnant with the baby she always wanted, and on the surface she has the perfect marriage to David, the love of her life. The only thing marring her happiness is the secret she's hiding from her husband. She told a lie ... Then David disappears and there doesn't seem to be any trace of him. Did the secrets inside hi

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan · 332 pages

Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have neve

The Secrets of Married Women

Carol Mason · 327 pages

For Jill, having a child has never been the be all and end all. She's just happy to have a lovely husband she can trust. But now Rob's gone off sex and treats her more like a flatmate than a lover. When Jill meets a handsome foreigner on the beach, will she take her chance for a bit of fun, or is it a risk not worth taking.

Coming Up for Air

Patti Callahan Henry · 261 pages

Struggling with the disintegration of her marriage at the same time her controlling mother passes away, Ellie is perplexed when she learns that her ex-boyfriend, Hutch, is creating a documentary about her mother.

The Things We Cannot Say

Kelly Rimmer · 448 pages

Family Pictures

Jane Green · 344 pages

As dark truths from the past reveal themselves, two middle-aged women must learn to forgive -- for the sake of their children and themselves.