Elizabeth Buchan Books In Order

Two Mrs Lloyd Books In Order

  1. Revenge of the Middle-aged Woman (2002)
  2. The Second Wife (2006)

Novels

  1. Daughters of the Storm (1988)
  2. Light of the Moon (1991)
  3. Consider the Lily (1993)
  4. Perfect Love (1995)
  5. Against Her Nature (1997)
  6. Secrets of the Heart (2000)
  7. The Good Wife (2003)
  8. That Certain Age (2004)
  9. Separate Beds (2008)
  10. Daughters (2012)
  11. I Can’t Begin to Tell You (2014)
  12. The New Mrs Clifton (2016)
  13. The Museum of Broken Promises (2019)
  14. Two Women in Rome (2021)

Collections

  1. Love & Passion (2013)

Game Books

  1. Ice Dancer (1985)

Non fiction

  1. Beatrix Potter (1987)

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Elizabeth Buchan Books Overview

Revenge of the Middle-aged Woman

For twenty five years, Rose Lloyd has juggled marriage, motherhood, and career with remarkable success. It has been a life of family picnics, books and wine, a cherished house, and her own exquisitely designed garden sunny and comfortable. But then the carefully managed life to which Rose has become accustomed comes crashing down around her when over the course of a few days her marriage and her career both fall apart. Can Rose, whose anguish is barely softened by the ministrations of friends and grown children with their own problems, ever start over? Not easily. But it’s amazing what prolonged reflection, the slimming effect of a lost appetite, a new slant on independence and a little Parisian lingerie will do. Especially when an old flame suddenly reappears. Full of humor, clever insight, and a whimsical sense of the absurd, Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman is an irresistible and finely written fantasy for anyone who ever wondered what a certain age would look like from beyond the looking glass and who will find it ripe with promise that the best days are yet to come.

The Second Wife

The Rules currently governing my life are these. Rule Number one: there is no justice. Rule Number two: contrary to a husband’s hopes, a second wife does not have the Karma Sutra tucked into her handbag. It is more likely to be aspirin. Rule number three: never complain, particularly if you have been instrumental in demonstrating Rule number one. Rule number four: never serve liver or tofu. It is not clever. So says Minty Lloyd as she struggles to make her life work as Nathan’s second wife. Mother to six year old twins, sidelined at family gatherings by Nathan’s hostile family, ostracised by his friends, she is haunted by the shadow of the glowing, successful Rose Nathan’s first wife. The trouble is, ‘she concludes, everything I do is second hand.’ Yet, such is curious nature of fate, Minty finds herself united in loss with an unexpected ally the woman she once betrayed. Buchan’s signature gift for capturing women’s daily joys and struggles is beautifully deployed in ‘The Second Wife‘, an irresistible story of love, grief and renewal that explores that nature of friendship and the bonds that grow strongest when stretched to breaking.

Daughters of the Storm

Set during the French Revolution, this book is concerned with three women on the brink of womanhood. In the midst of turmoil and change that is to follow, each woman is given the chance to forge her own destiny.

Light of the Moon

I thought loving someone was simple. It isn’t. Glorious, yes. Painful, yes. Unforgettable, yes. Simple, no. It took me the war to find out…
.’ Evelyn St John has been parachuted into France to link up with the Resistance. Paul von Hoch’s brief, as a member of the German Intelligence, is to track down enemy spies. Suddenly the battle lines shift between patriotism and a deeper truth that says love is more important.

Consider the Lily

Elizabeth Buchan garnered both praise and a loyal readership with the bestselling Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman and The Good Wife Strikes Back. Now her many new fans can discover one of her beloved early novels. It is the summer of 1929. The Hinton Dysart estate is dying from lack of money, and Kit Dysart, the heir, sees no way out. Then, at his sister’s wedding, he meets the vibrant Daisy Chudleigh and her cousin, the heiress Matty Verrall. In love with Daisy but troubled by his family s decline, Kit chooses to marry Matty, though neither Kit nor Daisy is able to forget the other. When Matty, growing increasingly unhappy in her troubled, empty marriage, decides to re create the estate s garden, she discovers solace and a gift of which she never dreamed. A glorious fusion of love and gardening, Consider the Lily is a classic and poignant novel of love, loss, and, ultimately, a new flowering between the two world wars.

Perfect Love

How far would she go for the Perfect Love?

Many things can disrupt a long time marriage. Prue Valour, 41, has spent her adulthood keeping house, making meals for her older husband, Max, and being a mother to their preadolescent daughter. Despite the comforts of life in their small English village, a vague discontent nags at Prue. But change is set in motion with the return of Max’s petulant, icily beautiful daughter Violet. Moving in with her new baby and husband, Violet is as hateful to her step mother Prue as she had been as a child. Worse, Violet resents her fretful baby. But Violet’s husband Jamie is unexpectedly helpful, likeable, and caring. Drawn to each other, he and Prue are soon skirting a boundary between innocence and passion. But will Prue take that irrevocable step across?

Against Her Nature

Unlike the Frants living their quiet ordered lives in the village of Appleford, Tess and Becky are of the generation that reckons it can have everything. High flyers in the high octane world of Londons high finance, they move through the opportunists, the short termists, the sharks, the bullies and the very, very rich to face many choices, not least the one presented by biology: children. How they and an older generation balance the texture of their lives is offered in a story with universal themes. Brilliantly and beautifully combined with a tender and unexpected love story and a journey to maturity, it is the work of a fine and courageous writer.

Secrets of the Heart

Agnes Campion is 30 when she inherits Flagge House from her uncle. Struggling with its upkeep whilst looking after her elderly aunts, juggling her work, and nursing a bruised heart, she doesn’t bank on falling for handsome property developer Julian,whose job is everything she despises. But Julian has commitments of his own: Kitty, his long term mistress, won’t give him up without a fight: seemingly fragile, she’s really as tough as nails. Nor does Agnes imagine that stoical Andrew, whose organic farm is being wrenched away from him by a planning application, will fall for her too. Slowly, surely, a love quartet is developing, but relationships are messy things, and only two people can find happiness at the end of it all…

The Good Wife

When Viking published Elizabeth Buchan’s New York Times bestseller Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman, American women saw themselves mirrored in its pages with unique empathy, sophistication, and storytelling flair. It was more than a finely written and irresistible read. It opened up the unsuspected vista of a newer, better than ever phase of life waiting for them. The same readers and many more, because the word about Buchan has gotten out will devour The Good Wife Strikes Back. Forty eight year old Fanny Savage has a nineteen year record earned with patience, devotion, and contentment as the perfect wife to an ambitious, idealistic politician. Life is a whirlwind of public engagements and unquestioning loyalty to the party, to keeping up appearances, and to her husband. Her job description is to look good and remain silent whatever the cost. But as much as she loves her husband and their teenage daughter, Fanny senses within herself a creeping restlessness. Increasingly she feels the fragility of happiness and the part of her she had buried as the brilliant partner in her father s Italian winery begins to resurface. She has given two decades of her life to being The Good Wife was it worth it, after all? Could it be time for a trip back to Italy? Could it be time for…
a change?

That Certain Age

No one has captured the complexities of marriage at middle age better than Elizabeth Buchan. Now she is back with another irresistibly entertaining and thoughtful tale of two women at the crossroads of love, of freedom who wonder, Where does happiness lie?

It is the summer of 1959 when forty two year old Barbara Beeching, a married mother of two grown up children, meets Alexander Liberty. Adored by her family and admired by her friends, Barbara never imagined that an unexpected, tender, and surprisingly passionate affair with a much younger man was on the horizon. Will she allow it to destroy the only life she’s ever known?

Forty years later, thirty five year old Siena Grant is at a very different crossroads. Immersed in her challenging career as a television fashion consultant, Siena does not believe that happiness requires having children. But her husband, Charlie, disagrees. Can Siena give Charlie the family life he craves without sacrificing her ambition or well ordered life? Or will children give her a kind of joy she s never experienced before?

Decades separate Barbara and Siena years in which the lives of women and the battle of the sexes have changed substantially. Or have they?

Separate Beds

A story of economic breakdown and romantic recovery from the author of Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman. Tom and Annie’s kids have grown up, the mortgage is do able, and they’re about to get a gorgeous new, state of the art French stove. Life is good or so it seems. Beneath the veneer of professional success and domestic security, their marriage is crumbling, eaten away by years of resentment, loneliness, and the fall out from the estrangement of their daughter, and they’ve settled into simply being two strangers living under the same roof. Until the economy falls apart. Suddenly the dull but oddly comfortable predictability of their lives is upended by financial calamity Tom loses his job, their son returns home, and Tom’s mother moves in with them. As their world shrinks, Tom and Annie are forced closer together, and the chaos around them threatens to sweep away their bitterness and frustration, refreshing and possibly restoring the love that had been lying beneath all along. In Separate Beds, Elizabeth Buchan has captured the concerns and joys of contemporary women, and her timely, warm, and funny novel tracks the ebb and flow of family, fortune, and love that is familiar to so many readers.

Beatrix Potter

This simplified biography of Beatrix Potter and the history of the Peter Rabbit book is ideal for the younger reader.

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