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An anthology of short stories that also includes three stories from the winners of the Woman & Home Short Story Competition.

When Jonny went missing everything changed. His mother's heart is full of terror and sadness instead of joy. His father's study overflows with newspaper cuttings and profiles on missing people instead of the academic texts that were there before. His sister, once carefree, now carries the weight of the world on her shoulders.

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Irene has a husband, Adrian, three small children and although she doesn't know it yet a marriage that is going wrong. When she discovers Adrian is having an affair, the family is blown apart. But as Irene soon realises, being alone can mean discovering freedom, elation and finding solace.

Eleanor Lee has lived a fiercely independent existence for over ninety years, but now it's time to tidy her life away - books, photographs, paintings, letters - a lifetime of possessions all neatly boxed up for the last time. But amongst them there are some things that must be kept hidden.

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When Marnie receives a phone call that summons her to the side of a once-beloved friend, she is wrenched from her orderly London life and sent back into a past from which she has fled but never escaped. Ralph, Marnie and Oliver once knew each other well and are still inextricably bound by ties of love and betrayal.