Clare Leslie Hall and Sally Page

About Clare

After many years living and working in London as a journalist and writing Pictures of Him and Days You Were Mine, Clare, her husband and three children moved to an old farmhouse in Dorset. The house, the ancient fields surrounding it and the farmers who have a deep connection to the land inspired the setting for Broken Country.

About Sally

After studying history at university, Sally Page moved to London to work in advertising. In her spare time she studied floristry at night school and eventually opened her own flower shop. Sally came to appreciate that flower shops offer a unique window into people’s stories and she began to photograph and write about this floral life in a series of non-fiction books. Later, Sally continued her interest in writing when she founded her fountain pen company, PLOOMS.

Sally now lives in Dorset. Her eldest daughter, Alex, is a doctor and her youngest daughter is the author Libby Page. Sally’s debut novel, The Keeper of Stories, was a Sunday Times bestseller, has now sold over 500,000 copies and has been translated into 30 languages.

About Broken Country

Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place Book Club Pick
Reese’s Book Club Pick
A Barnes & Noble Book Club Pick
A New York Times Bestseller
A Sunday Times Bestseller
Published in 37 languages

Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel’s return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can’t help thinking they were right.

Beth was seventeen when she first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made her think and feel and see differently. She thought it was the start of her great love story. When Gabriel left to become the person his mother expected him to be, she was broken.

It was Frank who picked up the pieces and together they built a home very different from the one she’d imagined with Gabriel. Watching her husband and son, she remembered feeling so sure that, after everything, this was the life she was supposed to be leading.

But when Gabriel comes back, all Beth’s certainty about who she is and what she wants crumbles. Even after ten years, their connection is instant. She knows it’s wrong and she knows people could get hurt. But how can she resist a second chance at first love?

A love story with the pulse of a thriller, Broken Country is a heart-pounding novel of impossible choices and devastating consequences.

Praise for Broken Country

A love story like no other

CHRIS WHITAKER, author of All the Colours of the Dark

Broke my heart then mended it again. An epic, tortured love story. Bring tissues

JENNIE GODFREY, author of The List of Suspicious Things

Evocative, sensitive and compelling . . . Fires directly at the heart and hits the mark

DELIA OWENS, author of Where the Crawdads Sing

Lyrical, brutal and passionate. I devoured it

MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER, author of The Paper Palace

About A Curious Ending

All Lara wanted was a quiet life among the flowers of North Dorset. No drama. No danger. Then Lady Porter’s death changed everything. Lara suspects her friend was murdered – she just can’t prove it.

That is, until The Hon. Abigail Rossmore arrives. A ghost. A witness to 190 years of suspicious deaths. And possibly Lara’s only chance at justice. Together, can they uncover what really happened to Lady Porter, and will Lara rediscover herself along the way?

Praise for A Curious Ending

‘I absolutely loved it! So different, clever, funny and charming’

Sunday Times bestseller Katie Fforde

‘I didn’t want to put it down and couldn’t stop thinking about it… Utterly mesmerising. Tender and truly memorable. I adored it’

Heidi Swain

‘Heartwarming and witty… explores how creativity can spark new connections and fill your life with colour. Guaranteed to make you smile – and maybe follow your own secret dream’

Jo Leevers