Claudia Caroll Boeken

Een jonge vrouw meldt zich aan voor een cursus waarbij de alleenstaande cursisten contact moeten zoeken met al hun vorige relaties om zo te ontdekken wat ze al die tijd fout deden.

But when he gets home to a surprise birthday party, it is his guests who get the real surprise. Standing in the doorway is not Frank, but Francesca. As she transitions, Francesca struggles to come to terms with her true self, and her relationship with her family is thrown into turmoil.

It's late at night and the rain is pouring down on the Dublin city streets. A mother is grieving for her dead child. She stands silently outside the home of the teenage boy she believes responsible. She watches . . .In a kitchen on the same square, a girl waits anxiously for her mum to come home. She knows exactly where she is, but she knows she cannot reach her. A few doors down, and a widow sits alone in her room. She has just delivered a bombshell to her family during dinner and her life is about to change forever. And an aspiring theatre director has just moved in to a flat across the street. Her landlord is absent, but there are already things about him that don't quite add up . . .Welcome to Primrose Square.

Annie & Dan were the perfect couple. But now they feel more like flatmates than soul mates & wonder where all the fun went. When Annie lands her big break in a smash-hit show that's heading for the bright lights of Broadway, she's over the moon. But with their relationship on the rocks, how will Annie & Dan survive the distance?

Quicker than you can say Cinderella, Jessie Woods life falls to pieces and suddenly her prince isn't quite so charming, her party-loving friends disappear and even her faithful friend Visa no longer loves her. Utterly heartbroken and jobless, Jessie is forced back home, to live with her stepmum and two evil stepsisters.

Vicky Harper is single and it's been a long time since she had a date with a decent single man, so she decides to put the laws of attraction into action. All she has to focus on is thinking her wildest fantasies into reality. She and her two best friends vow to project-manage each others' lives - with hilarious consequences.

In a New York minute, everything can change Holly Johnson is at a crossroads in her life. She wants to make it as a real journalist, and she s dreaming of falling in love. She s so close to getting her break at work, and she s met a very special guy. Well, she hasn t actually met him not yet. But everyone knows most relationships start online these days. And she s on to a winner with this one. Isn t she? But something is not quite right with Andy McCoy and he s about to learn you don t mess with Holly Johnson. She decides to fly to New York to find the truth."

An original, funny and poignant story about those things in life that you just can't plan for...'A very modern fairytale, full of Claudia's trademark wit and humour' Sheila O'Flanagan Eloise Elliot is one of the youngest newspaper editors in the country. Respected and revered by her peers, she's at the top of her game. But, on the eve of her thirtieth birthday, finding herself surrounded by some pathetic looking balloons and mangy sandwiches in The Daily Post's conference room, Eloise is hit but a long sharp pang of loneliness. Suddenly, and with dazzling clarity, she realises what she wants to make her life more complete. A baby. One successful trip to the sperm bank and almost three years later and she is the adoring mother of a gorgeous little girl, Lily. Juggling a high-powered job with motherhood is not easy and when she finds herself without childcare she sends an SOS to her sister Helen. Yet it's when Lily starts asking about her 'daddy' that Eloise really starts to panic. What will she tell her? So Eloise decides there's nothing for it - she's going to find Lily's father. After all, she chose the perfect donor so surely there won't be any surprises. Except that there are plenty, and Eloise gets a lot more than she bargained for.

IT'S THE CELEBRITY WEDDING OF THE YEAR AND EVERYONE'S INVITED!Portia Davenport is officially the luckiest woman in the world. She and her drop-dead gorgeous husband, Andrew, have just finished ploughing a fortune into renovating her ancestral home, Davenport Hall, and are now planning to unveil it as one of the most fabulous, luxurious, five-star country house hotels in Kildare....But life never turns out like you think, and no sooner has the red ribbon been cut at the grand opening party, than Andrew is jetting off to New York, back to his old job, old apartment, old friends and Portia very much fears, his bachelor ways.....And so the smooth running of Davenport Hall is entrusted to her beautiful younger sister, Daisy, which is a bit like leaving Country Barbie in charge of the United Nations. Especially as Eleanor Armstrong, daughter of the Irish President has chosen the Hall as the perfect backdrop for her society wedding to footballing legend, Oldcastle United's star striker and general all-round sex god, Mark Lloyd...Meanwhile, in Manhattan, Portia meets Lynn Fairweather, a single woman who's looking for Mr Right in much the same way that Scott was looking for the Antarctic. And if he just happens to be married to Portia, then that's her problem...And what is that smell coming from the cowsheds???

A gorgeous story of chance meetings and unexpected friendships. Because sometimes what you've always wished for isn't necessarily what life has in store . . . Marriage. It's a dream come true. Isn't it? One wet winter night, two women meet on a bridge. One is Tess Taylor, a personal trainer on the way to meet her boyfriend for date night. The other is Kate King, a celebrity married to a handsome billionaire who just happens to make her cry. In the cold dark evening, there is nothing to link them together but the bridge they shiver on. Little do they know they'll both hold the key to each other's future marriage... All She Ever Wished For tells the story of what happens when your dream is about to come true. And what happens when that dream turns into a bit of a nightmare... Claudia Carroll brings you a Christmas gift filled with second chances, fateful encounters and a lesson in what true love means.