This is the first book in a series of self-help fiction titles. By reading about the lives of fictional characters, the reader learns much about how to unravel present day problems. The understanding of stresses that began in childhood years casts light on why the characters are struggling with the difficulties that they are having now. Description on the back cover reads as follows: Newly unemployed, Miranda is feeling directionless and dejected. Then she encounters Kate, a former work colleague. Kate is now facing redundancy. Their friendship is rekindled, and as the two women share their problems and dilemmas, they begin to confide about experiences that have affected their lives. Miranda had helped to mother her two younger sisters when they were growing up, but they rarely contact her and she feels puzzled and hurt by this. It emerges that the impact upon Kate of her father's leaving when she was young has many facets. Inspired by memories of her Granny Ann, whose many stories delighted her, Miranda's creative self begins to emerge, and Kate's vision of her own future matures. Miranda and Kate gain confidence and optimism about self-employment, and their personal relationships begin to flourish.

This is the second book in a series of self-help fiction titles. By reading about the lives of fictional characters, the reader learns much about how to unravel present day problems. The understanding of stresses that began earlier in life casts light on why the characters are struggling with the difficulties that they are having now. Description on the back cover reads as follows: Victimised by the new office manager and worried about her mother's health, Lynne feels at a very low ebb. When she decides to be more open with her mother about her concerns, she is surprised to find that they both benefit. Lynne's mother is determined to help her daughter explore why she had lost interest in finding a partner for herself, and she approaches the subject sensitively. Thus supported, Lynne faces the challenge of preparing to look for a new relationship. Together Lynne and her mother take a number of positive steps that lead to change and enrichment of their lives.

This story takes place in a primary school in Scotland (where pupils attend for seven years, class P1 to class P7.) It is suitable for all readers aged eight and upwards. It is the last week of the summer term. The teacher of the primary 6 class has flu, and a supply teacher stands in for her. She turns out to be a wonderful teacher, and also she has some great ideas for the summer holidays. The 24 pupils in the class start to make plans for some projects...

Annette is a mature woman with a wide circle of good friends and an interesting and stimulating job teaching biology at the local college. But something is wrong. She gradually realises that since the departure of her husband-to-be some years previously, she had unconsciously avoided any kind of closeness that might lead to deepening intimacy. Becoming determined to help herself, she creates an imaginary lover to whom she writes with complete freedom and increasing confidence. Through the course of this "correspondence" she reassesses her intimate life of the past, and she moves into a new spontaneity and lightness as her writing begins to reveal more of her true nature. She finds herself responding to the warm friendship of a colleague, a widower...