The BlessingWhen Grace Allingham, a nave young English woman, goes to live in France with her dashingly aristocratic husband Charles Edouard, she finds herself overwhelmed by the bewilderingly foreign cuisine and the shockingly decadent manners and mores of the French. But it is the discovery of her husband's French notion of marriage which includes a permanent mistress and a string of casual affairs that sends Grace packing back to London with their "blessing,"

But you should start at the beginning

bored of his holiday nearby

everything is falling apart

And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space

a place teeming with crocodiles

she finds herself warming up to the scrappy young man and his undeniable charm

has many pet hates

But now Yeeran and Lettle are thrust into their seductive world – torn between their loyalty to each other

Former MI5 agent Harry Tate is drawn back into the field when an old friend goes missing - and discovers the stakes could not be higher

police procedural and psychological drama

People talk about the cold

he tells them to go ahead