The Calendar MumsA gorgeously warm, funny and heartbreaking book about what it means to be a mother. The Hickory Creek Community Centre is a lifeline for new mums. So when a bad case of black mould threatens to end the only women's services available in their small town, a new mothers' group bands together to save it. Their plan? Create a fundraiser calendar featuring themselves in the nude. As the mothers bare all, it doesn't take long for them to start baring their

And together they realize a dream

until tragedy strikes – Heather Badcock has been poisoned

sneaking a glass of champagne

festive dinners: Stuffed Pork Fillet on Grape Tomatoes (18 minutes)

and Sisters of the Heart series

and with war between Castallan and Englass looming

or will her secret identity tear everything apart

and feasting

If Jean can keep the signals flowing between headquarters and the soldiers at the Front

To the outside world they seem like an ordinary couple

“Clever Girl is…what could be called a ‘sensibility’ novel—a story that doesn’t overreach

the influences of which can be observed in later tour-de-force works like A Book of American Martyrs and The Sacrifice