Story of Elizabeth Taube, a teenager who feels lonely and unloved by her parents and looks unsuccessfully for love in a variety of places until she finds someone who truly appreciates her and together they explore unknown places within their hearts and souls.

A charming, young English woman is at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable and is forced to choose between convention and passion.

Eleven-year-old Lulu explores the meaning of love as she struggles to accepts the changes in her best friend Tilda, a teenage mother for whom Lulu babysits, when Tilda falls deeply in love.

Carmel March's life had been shrouded by secrets from the very beginning. First she is brought up by a couple who found her wandering in their gardens at Commonwood, then a tragedy at Commonwood sweeps her off to Australia where she meets a young man who dreams of making his fortune in the opal mines. Carmel always feels drawn back to the England of her youth, so she returns only to find she had been rushed away from the scene of a murder those...

Mr. Joyboy, an embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet.

Bill Fitzgerald travels to Venice to meet an old friend. While there, he meets an unhappily married woman from New York and begins an illicit though fateful love affair.

The story of a bittersweet romance between an ambulance driver and a nurse during the First World War, and possibly the finest American novel of that war.