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Separate Beds
Jan 18, 2026 10:44 PM

Author:Elizabeth Buchan

Separate Beds

Fall in love with the poignant and compelling novel about rediscovering true love from Elizabeth Buchan, bestselling author of The New Mrs Clifton

Annie and Tom seem to have everything - a lovely home, rewarding jobs and three healthy grown-up children.

But beneath the surface lies a secret guilt which ensures that whilst they live under the same roof, they sleep in separate beds. Then Tom comes home one evening and drops a bombshell that threatens to destroy everything they have left.

If Tom and Annie are to weather this storm together they must first face the past that lies between them. Yet will doing so only push them further apart?

Separate Beds is the heartwarming and captivating novel about the little acts of kindness that can reunite a family and rekindle a marriage.

Praise for Elizabeth Buchan:

'Gorgeously well-written - funny, sad, sophisticated' Independent

'Beautifully observed, with the insight and humour that one has come to expect from the author' Times

'Compelling, compassionate, and aglow with moments of laugh-or-cry humour' Mail on Sunday

'Buchan is a cut above the rest' Sunday Mirror

Reviews

Italo Calvino's Adam, One Afternoon confirms the part he has played in revitalising the art of fiction in our time. In these beautifully translated stories, the quality of the writing emerges as clearly as do the ease and range of his inventiveness. Calvino's special gift is to link the physical and immediate with an allegorical timelessness-All the characters and creatures in these stories conspire to convey a feeling of the wonder, mystery and terror of life

—— Guardian

Calvino's strength is his economy and subtlety. The best of his allegorical fantasies have the power of the Brothers Grimm, rollicking stories on the surface, with an underlying savagery

—— Listener

Exaggerates and deflates the pretensions of America's future ruling class in hilarious style

—— The Economist

These are Wolfe's most memorable characters and this is his best book yet

—— David Isaacson , Word Magazine

Exuberant, lovingly crafted grotesquery

—— Daily Telegraph
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