Clare Boylan

When aristocratic Englishwoman Elinore Dubois married a handsome young Irishman, her mother warned her that he would give her ten children and leave her destitute.…

When Charlotte Bronte died in 1855, she left behind the beginnings of a new novel - twenty pages of a work in progress called Emma.…

Focusing on the dilemmas of contemporary women and issues of responsibility and choice, Clare Boylan's writing has become a much-loved voice of contemporary fiction. Here,…

Dick and Lily have been married for fifty years, and Lily finally believes that marriage is like an old tune you take for granted but…

'The book I have read with the greatest pleasure, amusement and deep sympathy' Molly Keane, Sunday Times As a child Alice had paid the nuns…

'A sharp eye for detail that makes reading Boylan's work such a pleasure' Sunday Times To Eugene Rafferty, girls are like money - they have…