A WOMAN'S LIFE is the fictional story of three womens' lives stretching from 1940 to the end of the last century. Nina was born in England of middle class parents, Connie came from a small farm in Co Mayo, Ireland and Fay was born in Chicago of a Jewish immigrant family. It is a compulsively readable story, held together by the unlikely friendship of such disparate personalities.

FAR OUT! is a childrens' adventure story, featuring two inner city kids, Ruby and Slate, plus a rather odd bunch of friends. Mixing straight story-telling with fantasy, the novel whirls away reader and children alike to a very strange island indeed.

These publications give some idea of the range of Billington's writing. Since her first novel, ALL THINGS NICE, came out in 1969, she has published 16 novels and eight childrens' books, including five on religious subjects, three of them for younger children. Her adult novels have dealt with subjects as different as BODILY HARM (now in pre-production for a film) which tells the story of a violent aggressor and his victim who he has left for dead or LOVING ATTITUDES, a satire on sexual life in the middle classes.

Rachel Billington has had television plays performed, written screenplays and still does regular journalism. She wrote a column for the Sunday Telegraph for over three years. She is co-editor of Inside Time, the national newspaper for prisoners which she helped to found in 1991. She was President of English PEN, the writers' organisation till 2000 and is still a Vice-President and Chair of their Readers and Writers Programme.

Billington is married, has four children and two grandchildren. Her special pleasure is walking in the Dorset country-side where she lives part of the time.

An intense, moving novel about obsessive love in the vein of Josephine Hart's DAMAGE, from the author of A WOMAN'S LIFE and THE SPACE BETWEEN.

K, a middle-aged painter, has come back from Mexico to attend a wedding in an English country church. But the church is empty and silent. The wedding has been postponed. Like an ancient mariner, he finds he has been away too long, and has returned perhaps at the wrong moment - either too early or too late.

When K first saw Claudia fourteen years before, he fell instantly and dangerously in love. He managed to forget he had a wife and a life already full. But Claudia was little more than a child then, twenty-four years his junior, beautiful but unformed. Perhaps it was no surprise that their love proved to be so destructive.

Now, years later, he returns to find this new bride, his old love, is on the verge of a very different future. But the past, inevitably, awaits them both - and he is determined to take her back there...