Jane Rogers

The first novel from the acclaimed author of Mr. Wroe's Virgins and The Voyage Home.
 
Orph is a strange, silent, friendless young man. Emma meets him when she comes to work at the children’s home where he lives. She offers him a room in her student flat. But there, amid the love affairs and politics of university life, Orph’s alienation only grows deeper, and his lonely course has the most desperate...

In the 1820s, Prophet John Wroe settled his Christian Israelite church in Lancashire, England, where he and his followers awaited the end of the world. And when God told Wroe to find "comfort and succour" with seven virgins, his followers supplied him their daughters. This is the story of those seven young women-faithful, cynical, canny, and desperate-and their charismatic leader, as they move headlong toward the historic trial that brings their household...

"From the multi-award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Testament of Jessie Lamb comes this riveting novel about the devastating secrets revealed in the midst of a disintegrating marriage. The story of a marriage, and of two lives in science. When Conrad fails to return from a conference, Eleanor wonders if it is because of the affair she is having? Or perhaps it is because his research into transgenic monkey hearts is stalling; perhaps...

Having spent her traumatic childhood in and out of foster homes, twenty-eight-year-old Nikki Black has decided to finally take control of her life. That begins with finding her birth mother, Phyllis: the woman who abandoned her as a newborn at a London post office. The plan is simple. She'll find her mother, demand the answers she's always needed, then exact her revenge. But when Nikki tracks Phyllis down on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides,...