Goodnight Sweetheart

Nov 29, 2025 7:53 AM

Author:Charlotte Bingham

Exciting and dramatic but tender and heartfelt; this is a novel that you will return to again and again. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, for fans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jeffries.

'A novel rich in dramatic surprises... will have you frantically turning the pages.' - DAILY MAIL

'One of Britain's most bankable novelists.' - THE DAILY EXPRESS

'I laughed and cried at this tale, could visualise the characters, scenery and the story' - ***** Reader Review

'Great book, grabs you on the first page' - ***** Reader Review

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A WARTIME BETRAYAL STRAIGHT TO THE HEART

As Walter Berrisford paints beautiful Katherine Garland, she asks him to put a ladybird on her finger without his knowing why. He is appalled when he discovers that Katherine is a Nazi.

The outbreak of war means that everyone must contribute to the war effort: her sister Caro and her friend Robyn join the FANYs, while former maids, Betty and Trixie, work in a factory.

War brings frantic romance to all, including their flatmate Edwina O'Brien, but it is Betty, transferred to decode at Bletchley Park who discovers the truth about the Ladybird...

Reviews

A wartime romance you won't be able to put down!

—— YOURS magazine, Oct 07

A master of romantic storytelling, Charlotte Bingham weaves a spell of love, loss and mystery in the midst of wartime peril.

—— The Good Book Guide, Oct 2007

Kadare's delicately misted view of another world (as much internal as totalitarian) lives up to the splendour of his title

—— Independent on Sunday

Inexorably takes your breath away

—— Herald

Sly and funny. A deeply pleasurable page-turner

—— Observer

It is Lurie, not Updike whom people will one day read to discover what our life and times were really like. Dazzling intelligent, witty, perceptive and engaging, she is not to be missed

—— New Statesman

Lurie is the reigning queen of a certain kind of academic comedy... Truth & Consequences is a deeply pleasurable page-turner

—— Rachel Cooke , Observer

Lurie's entertaining novel charts these symmetrical relationships with subtlety and compassion, and thoughtfully examines the balance of power between those who give and require care

—— Daily Mail

Lurie expertly maps the downward marital slope: the slow falling out of love, the undignified transformations of middle age, the interplay of eros and hypochondria... The author's satirical gifts are undiminished

—— Wall Street Journal

A story of modern love that will have readers laughing and sighing with recognition... A wry, insightful, thoroughly enjoyable tale about how men and women choose their demons and their lovers, and the sacrifices they're willing to make for both

—— Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect

—— New York Review of Books

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