Clare Boylan

BELOVED STRANGER, 1999, 309 pp.
After fifty years of marriage in the same Dublin suburb, Dick and Lily enjoy a "safe" life of compromise until one night Lily awakens to find Dick under the bed, holding a shotgun--plunging deeper into his insanity.

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Katie Fforde

SECOND THYME AROUND, 2000, 371 pp.
Appealing characters in a romantic comedy described by Publisher’s Weekly as a “clever interweaving of love, friendship, horticulture and cuisine.”

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Lynne Hinton

FRIENDSHIP CAKE, 2000, 210 pp.
Five women, working together to create a church cookbook, share their passions, loves, and losses.

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Eva Ibbotson

A SONG FOR SUMMER, 1998, 224 pp.
Set in a boarding school in pre-war Vienna, this novel describes the efforts of a group to ensure they all escape the Nazis.

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Cathy Kelly

WHAT SHE WANTS, 2003, 529 pp.
Chatty, comfortable, contemporary romance about young woman in Ireland who discovers she can’t be all things to all people.

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Eric Kraft

LEAVING SMALL'S HOTEL, 1998, 346 pp.
In a story of love and commitment, Peter and Albertine find their future in jeopardy as the hotel they own attracts no guests, and Peter must turn to the unfamiliar world of storytelling and electronic contraptions to save his marriage.

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Lorna Landvik

WELCOME TO THE GREAT MYSTERIOUS, 2000, 324 pp.
Heartwarming novel about an actress who reluctantly agrees to care for her young nephew with Down’s Syndrome, and discovers the really important things in life.

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Sharon Owens

THE TEA HOUSE ON MULBERRY STREET, 2003, 323 pp.
A small restaurant in Belfast is the center of a bustling community; when the future of the tea-room is threatened, the characters come together to save it in an ingenious way in this heartwarming novel.

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Rosamunde Pilcher

WINTER SOLSTICE, 2000, 464 pp.
Winter solstice--the shortest day of the year--represents darkness and also hope, renewal, and rebirth. Five people come together, ranging in age from teenagers to mid-sixties, to confront very different challenges.

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