Relationships and romance

AN UNSUITABLE MATCH by Joanna Trollope, Macmillan

Divorcee Rose, 62, bumps into school pal, widower Tyler, at his actress daughter’s London debut. “My younger self must have been stupid not to grab you,” the father of two blurts. Rose, whose surgeon husband emigrated to Melbourne with the nurse he had been having an affair with, feels the same. But a late-in-life love is complicated when both partners have children, especially when those children are attentionseeking adults who do not support their parents’ new romance.

FOUR RESPECTABLE LADIES SEEK PART-TIME HUSBAND by Barbara Toner, Penguin/Random House

It’s 1919 and behind the curtains in Prospect – a sheep-farming town in New South Wales – live Louisa, a sexy widow who’s a bit of a lush; Adelaide, the uptight wife of a captain whose mind is left in WWIFrance; Maggie, “mum” to two brothers; and mysterious Pearl, capable housekeeper. They all need a man, so advertise for a husband to share! But will the man who turns up be able to solve all their problems?