Against Her Nature / Perfect Love Author:Elizabeth Buchan AGAINST HER NATURE — In the late-80s, unlike the Frants living their quiet ordered lives in the village of Appleford, Tess and Becky are of the generation that reckons it can have everything. They are negotiating the world of high finance and the City. High flyers in the high-octane world of London's high-finance, they move t... more »hrough the opportunists, the short-termists, the sharks, the bullies and the very, very rich. When disaster hits amid rumours of incompetence, Tess's father, a Lloyd's Name, suffers terrible losses. Meanwhile, Tess and Becky are faced with hard choices, not least the one presented by biology: children.
PERFECT LOVE
How far would she go for the Perfect Love?
Many things can disrupt a twenty-year marriage. Prue Valour, 41, has spent her adulthood keeping house, making meals for her older widower husband, Max, and being a mother to their pre-adolescent daughter. Despite the comforts of life in their small Hampshire village, a vague discontent nags at Prue. But change is set in motion with the return of Max's petulant, icily beautiful daughter Violet. Moving in from New York with her new baby and husband, Violet is as hateful to her step-mother Prue as she had been as a child. Worse, Violet resents her fretful baby. But Violet's husband Jamie is unexpectedly helpful, likeable, and caring. Drawn to each other, he and Prue are soon skirting a boundary between innocence and passion. But will Prue take that irrevocable step across?« less