(, New edition)

Lydia is acting impulsively. She's giving up teaching to become a translator and to take up painting. She will never be free of her family, nor does she want to be. But she doesn't really know what's going on in their lives. When she finds out her relationship with them is changed for ever.

(, New edition)

After 25 years of marriage, Anna finds divorce has made a single woman of her. In theory, she is free to go anywhere, but what about her job, her daughter and her angry, ageing mother Anna is still tied down, but when she loses her job, the picture begins to look slightly different.