Windmill Hill

In the 1970s, a single night at a remote hunting lodge, spent with a Hollywood director and his leading lady, set off an international scandal. The fallout destroyed Astrid's stage career and ended her marriage. Her former husband, Magnus Fellowes, a Scottish actor of great charm, became a household name across the world, while Astrid withdrew to a windmill in Sussex.

At 82, she still lives there with a pack of dachshunds and Mrs Baker, a friend who arrived to clean more than twenty years ago and never left. Mrs Baker has a troubled history of her own, and it has now caught up with them both. An incident at the windmill, which the two women call the Awful Incident, has drawn the attention of the police.

Then Astrid learns that Magnus, who is dying, is preparing a memoir that will tell all. Furious, she heads north to Scotland, resolved to stop him whatever it takes. Windmill Hill follows two very different women, each carrying painful pasts, as they build a friendship that is deep, lasting and steadfast.