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Secrets of the Heart

Secrets of the Heart

Summary

Get tangled up in love in the delightful and compelling romance from bestselling author Elizabeth Buchan

Agnes Campion is 30 when she inherits Flagge House from her uncle.

Whilst struggling with its upkeep, Agnes is also busy looking after her elderly aunts, juggling her work, and nursing a bruised heart. So she certainly doesn't bank on falling for handsome property developer Julian, whose job is everything she despises, and who has a mistress of his own.

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.


Secrets of the Heart
is the captivating and electrifying novel from bestselling author Elizabeth Buchan.

Praise for Elizabeth Buchan:

'Gorgeously well-written - funny, sad, sophisticated'
Independent

'Beautifully observed, with the insight and humour that one has come to expect from the author'
Times

'Compelling, compassionate, and aglow with moments of laugh-or-cry humour'
Mail on Sunday

'Buchan is a cut above the rest'
Sunday Mirror

About the author

Elizabeth Buchan

Elizabeth Buchan's previous novels include the prizewinning Consider the Lily, the New York Times bestseller Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, and her most recent book The New Mrs Clifton, which was a Waterstones Paperback of the Year in 2017. Elizabeth's short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in a range of magazines. Elizabeth reviews for the Sunday Times and the Daily Mail and is a patron of the Guildford Book Festival and co-founder of the Clapham Book Festival. She has chaired the Betty Trask and Desmond Elliott literary prizes, has been a judge for the Costa Novel Award, and she sits on the authors' committee for the Reading Agency. She lives in London.
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