Deze auteur, die schrijft onder het pseudoniem Nicola Thorne, duikt in de diepten van de menselijke psychologie en maatschappelijke structuren. Haar werken worden gekenmerkt door een scherp inzicht in de complexiteit van interpersoonlijke relaties en morele dilemma's. Thorne verkent thema's als identiteit, liefde en verlies via haar verhalen, en biedt een genuanceerde en realistische weergave van haar personages. Haar proza is vloeiend en boeiend, waardoor lezers zich volledig in haar ingewikkelde werelden kunnen onderdompelen.
Anna has a busy and fulfilled life. Her problems lie in her private life. Mother to two stepchildren, she decided not to have children of her own. Yet maintaining a maternal love that is not based on a natural blood tie is proving increasingly difficult in the face of irrational teenage hostility.
Old passions and hostilities come back to life in a narrative that continues Bronte's "Wuthering Heights". Hareton Earnshaw (Catherine's nephew) and Cathy Linton (Catherine's daughter) share their predecessors' passion for each other. But has Cathy remained untouched by her mother's wild nature?
The new novel from the ever-popular author - Sasha, the attractive and inspiring tutor of an evening class, is tired of her sterile relationship. Her students include Caroline, a soldier's wife, desperately anxious about her husband serving in Afghanistan; Roger, recently divorced and lonely; Pauline, who although successful in business, is afraid of being left on the shelf; and the talented but unsettling Martin, who mysteriously comes and goes. Over the course of a single year, the lives of all the students become interwoven in often surprising and unexpected ways.