A PRICE FOR EVERYTHING

Sheepshanks, Mary

RANDOM HOUSE UK

With her sense of self undermined by marriage and motherhood, Sonia, Lady Duntan, sets out to restore her beloved and decaying manor house to its former glory, but her plans are opposed by her philadering husband. A first novel.

A Price for Everything

Literature & Fiction

St Martins Pr

Follows the life of Flavia Cameron, a beautiful young woman who is an extremely talented musician and who is married to a mild mannered headmaster of a boy's school, until another man comes along and charms her

Facing the Music: A Novel

British & Irish

Picking Up the Pieces

Kate, who has recently lost her husband, finds ways to cope with her eccentric mother-in-law, but she must discover a new strength and new direction when her own daughter begins having marital problems

Thomas Dunne Books

The marriage of Giles and Isobel Grant is threatened when the wife's older sister Lorna returns home from South Africa and begins to make a play for the husband. By the author of A Price for Everything.

Off Balance

Humor & Satire

From the introduction by Rosamunde Pilcher: "A Price for Everything is linked, from start to finish, by Mary Sheepshanks' humor and a rare sense of the ridiculous which bubble up at the least likely moments. I read the book at a single sitting and felt bereft when I finally closed the cover onto the last page." "The house itself seemed to possess her. It was a love affair, and like many love affairs, it was inconvenient." Nestled cozily in the English countryside stands a house called Duntan-grand, proud, beautiful to look at, yet slowly falling apart and riddled with problems. How can Sonia, Lady Duntan so fiercely love such a monster of a house, almost as much as she loves her four children, perhaps more than she loves her husband, whose family has lived at Duntan for over 200 years? For Sonia, restoring Duntan to its former glory has become synonymous with repairing her own sense of self, and refurbishing the house means working closely with Simon Hadleigh, the charming director of the Heritage at Risk Association. But as her marriage seems to be crumbling faster than the house itself; her children growing up quickly; her painting career taking off and Simon awakening in her a long, dormant passion, Sonia realizes that everything has its price...

A Price for Everything (Rosamunde Pilcher's Book Shelf)

St. Martin's Paperbacks

Kate is in her fifties, recently widowed, and coping with the difficulties--and occasional pleasures--of flying solo. But when her daughter Joanna's husband walks out, and Joanna instantly assumes that Kate will step into the supporting Granny role while she goes career and man-hunting, Kate realizes it is time to step outside her family's preconceived expectations--with devastating results. What follows is a delightful story of the relationships and unspoken power struggles between four generations of women.

To all appearances, Isobel and Giles Grant have it all: happily married, with two adored children, and a glorious house in Scotland, they are about to fulfil a lifetime's dream by launching the Glendrochatt Arts Centre. The perfect life, it would seem. But beneath the surface, there are cracks which threaten to destabilize everything they've worked for. While their daughter Amy is bright and talented, her twin Edward is "different" -- nobody knows quite what Edward is. And Giles's talent for manipulation occasionally threatens to provoke even sunny Isobel. When Isobel's elder sister, Lorna, returns from South Africa -- and an unhappy marriage -- to take up residence at Glendrochatt, the cracks widen. For Lorna was once Giles's lover, and she's determined to take him back. The scars of a difficult childhood run deep in Lorna, and watching Isobel live the life she had planned for herself is almost unbearable. The situation is further complicated by the arrival of Daniel, an undeniably talented but mysterious artist to whom both sisters are drawn. It seems as if the Grants might be thrown irrevocably off balance.

PICKING UP THE PIECES

Contemporary

Off-Balance

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A PRICE FOR EVERYTHING

A Price for Everything

Facing the Music: A Novel

Picking Up the Pieces

Off Balance

A Price for Everything (Rosamunde Pilcher's Book Shelf)

Picking Up the Pieces

Off Balance

PICKING UP THE PIECES

Off-Balance