by Elizabeth Buchan

For twenty-five years, Rose Lloyd has juggled marriage, motherhood, and career with remarkable success. But then that carefully managed life comes crashing down around her when — over the course of a few days — her marriage and her career both fall apart.

by Kate Christensen

Manhattan therapist Josie realizes her long marriage to her professor husband Anthony is over. It's all very civilized.   Meanwhile, Josie's college friend Raquel is targeted by scandal blogs after her affair with a television hunk half her age.

by Claire Cook

divorced and dateless for two years, Sarah Hurlihy is out to change all that when she bravely answers a personals ad in a local paper.  She gets the ultimate nightmarish response -- her would-be date turns out to be her widower father.

As she listens to nursing home resident Ninnie Threadgoode tell stories of Whistle Stop, AL, in the 1930s, Evelyn decides to make positive life changes that lift her out of a midlife crisis. 
 

by Patricia Gaffney

Not only men have midlife crises. Meet Dash Bateman. She is a free-spirited photographer who recently lost her mother and sent her daughter off to college. After a trivial fight with her history-professor husband, Andrew, over a puppy, Dash takes the dog and leaves.

Phyllis Geronomus is a wisecracking 69-year-old widow who decides to leave Florida and return to Manhattan to help her grown children make something of their lives. The trouble is that her kids greet her arrival as they would a plague of locusts.

by Cassandra King

It's not easy being the Queen of Broken Hearts. Clare knows this as she's just assumed the mantle as a therapist specialising in helping women mend their broken hearts. And while she has no problem helping the hundreds of people seeking her advice, healing her own heart is another matter entirely.

by Marina Lewycka

When their recently widowed father announces that he plans to remarry, sisters Vera and Nadezhda realize that they must put aside a lifetime of bitter rivalry in order to save him. The new woman in his life is Valentina, a voluptuous gold-digger from Ukraine, fifty years his junior, with fabulous breasts and a proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine.

by Deborah Moggach

Now over 70, Buffy has grown tired of life in London. So when he inherits a bed-and-breakfast in the quiet Welsh town of Knockton, Buffy picks up and moves, determined to keep it going. 

by Jeanne Ray

A deliciously funny and wickedly sexy novel of love found (finally!) and love threatened (inevitably) by the families who claim to love us best. 

 

 When Wesley Lloyd Springer passed away, he left his proper Southern wife two legacies. The first, as befits a gentleman of means, is the whole of his sizeable estate. The second - well, that was a little bit more a surprise. 

Thirty years ago, the leading ladies of Charles Valley, GA - all named Margaret - did something terribly wrong for a very good reason. Now their secret is about to pop out. 
 

by Haywood Smith

We didn't start out as Red Hats. We started out in the late '60s as mademoiselles, self-proclaimed creme de la creme of Atlanta's "best" high schools, full of ourselves and drunk with the power of our blooming sexuality and good looks.