Four disparate Englishwomen arrange a month-long holiday at a sunlit Italian castle to escape damp London and the pressures of their social lives.

Set in 1870s upper-class New York, the novel follows a man caught between an established engagement and an unexpected attraction that threatens his place within a rigid social world.

An upper-class girl makes a misjudgment with far-reaching consequences; the novel follows the fallout across pre-war, wartime, and later life, and includes a self-aware reflection on writing and responsibility.

Three adult siblings carry different memories of their unconventional childhood with a difficult mother after their father's desertion.

Set in Victorian-era Britain, the novel follows characters entangled in theft, deception, and social constraint in London. The central pressure revolves around trust and betrayal among people on different rungs of the social ladder, where schemes and personal desires collide and reshape relationships.

Four very different people converge in an Italian villa during the later stages of World War II: a severely burned, anonymous patient; the Canadian nurse who tends him; a Sikh sapper; and a Canadian thief.

An anonymous group of neighborhood boys recall and try to explain the lives and deaths of five Lisbon sisters in a 1970s Midwestern suburb. The account pieces together small scenes, neighborhood detail, and collective memory to track how ordinary suburban rhythms intersect with profound loss.

Several loosely connected characters across different eras encounter anomalies that call into question the nature of reality, time, and memory.

Set after catastrophic solar heating has melted the ice caps and turned temperate cities into tropical lagoons, the novel follows a scientist stationed in a submerged London who becomes increasingly drawn to the altered environment.

Two young people from different social backgrounds form a fraught, recurring relationship from secondary school into university.

A young woman in the early 1950s experiences an increasingly severe depression while navigating academic opportunity, social expectations, and the pressures of adulthood. The novel presents her interior perspective as she struggles with identity, career choices, and the medical responses to her mental illness.

A woman embedded in high society navigates the pressures of reputation, money, and marriage as private desires and public judgment intersect. The immediate pressure is how social expectations and limited economic choices shape personal decisions and lead to moral and material consequences.