The Cavendon series

A quartet of emotionally gripping, glamorous novels set around the stately home of Cavendon Hall, its chatelaines the aristocratic Inghams and the loyal Swanns, the family who has served the earls for centuries.

Cavendon Hall opens at the Georgian hall surrounded by sweeping parkland that is home to two families: the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them, as their ancestors have done for centuries. The Earl and Countess have four beautiful young daughters – but no son to inherit the house. And now, with World War I looming, the Inghams and Swanns will find themselves tested in ways they never thought possible.

The Cavendon Women opens in summer of 1926 with the roaring twenties in full flow. Cavendon Hall’s heir is pushing for divorce and the family’s secrets are rising to the surface. The future of the stately home lies in the hands of four very different women: Daphne Ingham, fighting to modernise her ancestral home; Deidre Ingham, the career girl; Dulcie Ingham, the outspoken debutante – and Cecily Swann, from the other side of the house’s social divide, who breaks away to forge a path as a fashion designer in London. But the devastation of the Wall Street crash of 1929 will change everything.

The Cavendon Luck begins nine years later, in 1938. Cecily Swann and Miles Ingham, with the help of the whole family, have brought the family and the estate back from the brink of disaster. But with the arrival of World War II, Cavendon Hall will face its biggest challenge yet.

The final book in the series, Secrets of Cavendon, opens in 1949. London is in ruins but a young princess is marrying her prince. At Cavendon Hall, the war has exacted a terrible price on Britain and the great estate is facing bankruptcy. Its two families are at odds for the first time in living memory over the course that must be taken to save it. Can the Inghams and the Swanns unite to save the family name and the one thing they all hold dear – their future?