NICCI GERRARD

Op een ochtend brengt Gaby haar zoon naar de universiteit waar hij gaat studeren. Ze besluit niet direct terug te keren naar haar man en huis in Londen, maar springt op de trein de andere kant op. Deze voert haar naar een afgelegen dorp waar ze op zoek gaat naar Nancy, van jongs af aan haar beste vriendin.Bijna twintig jaar geleden verdween Nancy ineens uit Gaby''s leven - zonder ooit aan te geven wat de oorzaak van de breuk was. En nu wil Gaby eindelijk weten waarom. Want wat is de waarheid, welke geheim houdt Nancy verborgen?

Gaby and Nancy were inseperable when they were young. As teenagers they had no secrets and as adults they could conceive of none. Even when they found love - Gaby with Connor, and Nancy with Gaby's brother, Stefan - it was clear that nothing could separate them. Then one heartbreaking day Nancy left Stefan and walked out of all their lives. No one saw or heard from her again. No one knew where she went or why. Two decades later, Gaby - now a dutiful mother - discovers where Nancy lives. And she does something rash and impulsive: she turns up on her former friend's doorstep, unannounced and distraught. Yet when Nancy faces some searching questions with chilly indifference, Gaby makes a fateful decision to delve into her friend's new life - revealing some shocking, painful secrets with consequences for them all.

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.

A follow-up to The Moment You Were Gone from one half of the Nicci French writing duo.

Secrets and memories collide in The Twilight Hour, the new novel from bestselling author Nicci Gerrard.''Be with me now, at the twilight hour. When the light fails.''''I''m here.''''Tell me.''''What shall I tell you?''''Tell me about us, when we were young. What was it like? What was I like then?''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. And, nearing blindness, Eleanor needs help to uncover them before her children and grandchildren do.Peter, a young man with a broken heart who feels as lost as Eleanor''s past, is employed to help with this task. And together they uncover traces of another life - words and photographs telling a story of forbidden love, betrayal, passion, grief and self-sacrifice, which Eleanor must visit one last time.By speaking her memories out loud, and releasing the secrets of her past, Eleanor can finally lay them to rest. To honour them at last, and protect those who must never know.Praise for Nicci Gerrard:''Beguiling, poignant, wonderful'' Sunday Express''Acutely observed and beautifully written'' Woman and Home''Subtle, poignant and tremendously skilful'' ObserverNicci Gerrard writes for the Observer and is the co-author, with Sean French, of the bestselling Nicci French thrillers. She lives in Suffolk with her husband and four children. Her novels Things We Knew Were True, Solace, The Moment You Were Gone, The Winter House and Missing Persons are all published by Penguin and received rave reviews.

At 16 Edie knew things. Then she discovered what it was to fall in love; she dared to let herself be happy. But in one moment of tragedy, her dreams were torn apart. 20 years on, Edie is brought together with her sister again, and the truth of what happened years ago may finally become clear.

Irene and Adrian were lovers once. But now, after years of marriage and raising their children, the sparkle is gone. How can they find back the passion they once shared?