Anything Is PossibleYears ago, Lucy Barton, a successful New York writer, spent time in hospital, with her mother at the foot of her bed to keep her company. Avoiding the distance between them, they spoke at length about people from their home town, the rural, dusty town of Amgash, Illinois. Writing these stories, Lucy imagines the lives of the people that she especially remembers. And the people she has imagined that, in small ways, have remembered her too. For isn't it

the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague

the fastest-selling cookbook of all time

Sarah Still

the MIT are stumped

When Jane Cawson calls into her husband's medical practice and detects the perfume worn by his former wife

They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet

maverick chief inspector with the Black Forest crime squad

A doting husband

She reacts violently to the intrusion and flees her flat to spend a drunken night at a glittering party

in places that range from his father's scrap metal yards

she escaped to West Germany with nothing more than a small satchel and the clothes on her back

her ability to drive