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Four friends move to New York after college and spend the next three decades trying to hold on to Jude, who won't talk about his past

Three estranged sisters reunite in New York a year after losing the fourth, to stop the sale of their childhood home

A whirlwind New York marriage between near-strangers, and the friends caught in its fallout

A 1980s college love triangle that finds its way back to them decades later

Four close Chicago sisters, the quiet outsider who marries into them, and the rift that follows

Civil War-era Massachusetts: four March sisters grow up, fall in love and find their paths

A shy Turkish clerk in 1920s Berlin keeps returning to a haunting self-portrait, until he meets the woman who painted it

A young Upper East Side woman decides to sleep through an entire year in 2000 Manhattan, helped by the most careless psychiatrist in New York

Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other at school in a small Irish town, then keep finding and losing each other through their years at Trinity

Emma and Dexter meet on graduation night in 1988 Edinburgh, and we drop in on them every 15 July for twenty years of near misses

A glamorous 1950s New York summer that slowly slides into breakdown

Just out of a psychiatric hospital, reporter Camille Preaker is sent back to her Missouri hometown to cover the murders of two young girls. Staying in her childhood home with her cold, controlling mother and the eerie 13-year-old half-sister she barely knows, she increasingly loses herself in the case.

A tradwife influencer wakes up in the actual 1800s and finds out what the life she has been selling online really costs

Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a June morning in 1923 to buy flowers for her party, while an old love returns and a shell-shocked veteran crosses the same city

Set in 1950s Naples, two girls from a poor neighbourhood, bound by a lifelong, competitive friendship

A fading actress drives the Los Angeles freeways for hours to keep from falling apart as her marriage and Hollywood life come undone

A young bride haunted by the first wife in a grand, sinister English estate

Martha's husband leaves on her fortieth birthday, and she looks back on her London life, her chaotic family and what has been wrong since she was seventeen

After a dream she won't explain, a Seoul housewife stops eating meat, and her quiet refusal unsettles everyone around her in ways they can't control

A white author steals her dead friend's novel, publishes it as her own, and insists she's the victim when the internet finds out

Four strangers crammed into one small flat in 1975 India slowly become a family while the Emergency tears through their lives

A Swedish suburb: a grumpy widower's plans keep getting interrupted by his new neighbours

Set in a New England boarding school in 1942, an introverted student's struggle with jealousy toward his athletic best friend leads down a dark path

In Kabul across 4 decades, two women married to the same cruel man form a life-saving bond

Set in the trenches of World War I, a young German soldier and his schoolfriends find their youthful romanticism crumble into physical and psychological devastation

In 1975 small-town Missouri, a one-eyed boy saves a classmate from a kidnapper, is taken in her place and spends decades looking for the girl who kept him company in the dark

Two women swap places for one night to expose a lawyer, and by morning he's dead

Ten strangers are invited to a mansion on an island off the Devon coast, and one by one they die in the order of an old nursery rhyme

On the hottest day of summer 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony misreads a moment between her sister and the housekeeper's son, and her mistake follows them all into the war

A 1978 sorority-house attack, the women left behind, and their refusal to let the killer be the story

A 17-year-old and his father's American summer guest fall for each other at a family villa on the Italian Riviera in the 1980s

A castle in 1800s Styria, Austria: a lonely girl falls under the spell of a mysterious, seductive guest

A 36-year-old Tokyo convenience store worker who has never fit in gets pushed by everyone around her to finally act “normal”

A student in Dublin starts an affair with an older married man, testing her closest friendship

Decades after her family was killed in their Kansas farmhouse, Libby Day lets true crime fans pay her to revisit the night she named her brother

Set in a strict Vermont prep school in the 1950s, an unconventional teacher tells his boys to seize the day

A suburban Massachusetts advice columnist's life spirals after she loses her job and plots revenge

A boy born in a trailer in Appalachian Virginia talks his way through foster homes, football fame and the opioid crisis

A traumatized Japanese woman flees societal conformity for the rural mountains, embracing surreal alien fantasies with her cousin to reject human norms

Salinas Valley, California, across three generations: two families and a Cain-and-Abel type of rivalry

A funny, raw look back at a London girl’s twenties: messy nights out, bad dates, and the realisation that her best friends were the great love story all along.

Somewhere in a sealed Californian house, a girl too ill to go outside falls for the boy next door

1950s Paris: an American man torn between his fiancée and an Italian bartender

Victor Ward, a 1990s Manhattan model about to open a nightclub, is sent to Europe after an old girlfriend and slides into glamour laced with terror

On their fifth wedding anniversary Amy Dunne vanishes from her Missouri home, and every new clue makes her husband Nick look a little worse

A lonely, parentified seventeen-year-old high school senior in Alaska begins an affair with her married 40-year-old English teacher

A young woman raised in an underground cage escapes onto a desolate, featureless plain alongside thirty-nine older female captives

In modern-day Japan, a dying postman makes a deal with the devil, one more day for each thing erased

Set in a secluded lakeside resort, a woman's quiet getaway turns into a nightmare when her brother and sister-in-law are brutally murdered and her teenage niece vanishes

Jim, who has always hidden how well he speaks from the white people around him, runs from slavery down the Mississippi with Huck Finn and finally tells the story his way

A young, queer art graduate returns broke from Edinburgh to his family's isolated croft on the Isle of Harris, where he must navigate his strict father's heavy expectations

When supermarket cashier Julie finds her famous influencer twin Chloe dead, she quietly steps into her perfect life and million followers

New Hampshire: a 13-year-old searches for the mother who vanished from an elephant sanctuary

Home in Los Angeles for Christmas break, college freshman Clay drifts numbly through pool parties, cocaine and old friends quietly going under

Broke New York painter Edie starts an affair with an older married man and ends up living in his suburban home with his wife and daughter

Snowbound on the Orient Express in Yugoslavia, Hercule Poirot must work out which passenger stabbed an American millionaire in his berth

Maine, 2000 and 2017: a woman revisits her 'romance' with her teacher at 15 as he faces new accusations

Somewhere in a Swedish apartment block, a 7-year-old delivers her late grandmother's letters of apology

An artist returning to her seaside home finds her key doesn't work, a lookalike answering the door, and her husband insisting this stranger is his wife

Kathy looks back on her quiet English boarding school, the friends she grew up with and the slow truth about what they were raised for

A snowed-in house in the New York countryside: newlyweds find a vanished psychiatrist's session tapes

A podcaster meets her 'birthday twin', and her new subject gets far too close

Hartford, Connecticut: a son writes to the mother who can't read, about family, war and first love

Jilted the day before her wedding, Frankie takes her Tofino honeymoon with her childhood best friend

After her husband is killed in an Atlanta alley, a wealthy widow finds disturbing videos on his computer and turns to her estranged sister, a recovering addict, as the old disappearance of their eldest sister comes back to haunt them.

With four sisters and a mother desperate to marry them off, Elizabeth Bennet decides she can't stand the proud Mr Darcy, who can't stop thinking about her

An elderly widow working the night shift at a small-town aquarium in coastal Washington forms an unlikely bond with a giant Pacific octopus

A remote Scottish chapel: a couple's anniversary trip, and a marriage full of secrets

Set in modern-day Texas, a newlywed slowly turns into a great white shark, and his wife has to let him go

A gentle boy in 1980s Glasgow tries to save his glamorous mother from drink as their mining town falls apart around them

Small-town Ireland, Christmas 1985: a coal merchant sees what's happening behind the convent walls

A ninth-grader goes silent after a party and slowly finds the words for what happened

An aging retired executive with declining memory travels through Europe en route to an assisted-dying clinic in Switzerland, confronting his past relationships and unraveling consciousness along the way.

An old woman in small-town Ontario finally tells the truth about her sister's death in 1945, woven with the secret love story that made her sister famous

A Texas family across decades, shaped by a father's drinking and the love that holds on

In 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, an orphan girl, an outspoken bookkeeper and a mother searching for her missing daughter team up on a risky plan to take back what's theirs

A twelve-year-old bride arrives at a riverside estate in Kerala in 1900 and joins a family where someone drowns in every generation

A homophobic mob violently attacks a gay theatre troupe during rehearsals in 1980s Kingston, Jamaica, forcing the survivors to navigate trauma and survival.

Set in Philadelphia suburbs across five decades, two siblings who are exiled from their childhood mansion spend decades bound together in nostalgia and resentment

After their parents die, three siblings are sent to boarding school in Germany, and Jules spends decades finding his way back to them and to Alva

On her twenty-fifth birthday Libby inherits a Chelsea mansion, the house where she was found as a baby beside three bodies

In Depression-era Kentucky, an English bride seeking an escape from her suffocating marriage joins a brave group of women as horseback librarians

Yale watches his friends disappear during the AIDS crisis in 1980s Chicago, while thirty years later in Paris his friend Fiona searches for her estranged daughter

Long Island, 1922: a mysterious millionaire throws parties to win back the woman he lost

Cyril is born to an unmarried mother in 1945 Ireland, adopted by an odd Dublin couple, and spends seventy years trying to live openly in a country that won't let him

An old locksmith in New York longs to be noticed, while a Brooklyn teenager named after a character in his lost book goes looking for its author

A live-in maid, a too-perfect family and a room that locks from the outside

France, 1714, to New York today: a woman trades her soul to live forever but is forgotten by everyone

Madeleine graduates from Brown in 1982 caught between her brilliant, troubled boyfriend and the devoted friend who leaves for India still in love with her

Set in 1930s Moscow, the devil and his talking cat turn the city upside down in an absurd satire

Four very different sisters measure their lives against their parents' famously happy Chicago marriage, until the son one of them gave up for adoption turns up

When the most disliked man in St Mary Mead is shot dead in the vicar's study, elderly Miss Marple quietly notices what the police miss

Occupied France in WWII: two sisters survive the war in very different ways

After one night with her childhood love, Elle has a single summer day at her family's Cape Cod camp to choose between him and her husband, as fifty years of secrets surface

A missing brother, a Paris apartment building and neighbours who all have something to hide

Rachel and her best friend James share a damp flat in recession-era Cork, until her crush on her married professor drags them all into a mess

At a 1980s New England arts college, three students chase each other through drunken weekend parties where nobody wants the person who wants them

Richard leaves California for a small Vermont college and is drawn into an elite circle of classics students whose obsession with ancient Greek rituals spirals into madness

A retired Englishman is left his dead school friend's diary by a woman he met only once, and has to rethink everything he remembers about his youth

A Hollywood icon finally tells the truth about her seven marriages, and her one great love

A London painter shoots her husband five times and never says another word, and the psychotherapist at her secure unit becomes obsessed with making her speak

1920s Alaska: a childless couple build a girl out of snow, then a real girl appears

Algiers, 1940s: a detached young man kills a stranger on a beach and feels nothing

Somewhere in the Atlantic, survivors adrift after a yacht explodes pull aboard a man who says he's God

1950s Louisiana to 1990s LA: twin sisters split apart as one lives as Black, one passes as white

The neighbourhood boys of 1970s suburban Michigan, now grown men, are still piecing together the year they couldn't stop watching the five Lisbon sisters

Four years of US high school after a girl is assaulted by her brother's best friend

Across time and space, two agents on opposite sides of a war fall in love through letters

1930s Alabama: a girl watches her father defend a Black man falsely accused of rape

New York and Hollywood, three women chase fame and the pills that keep them going

Merricat guards the crumbling family estate and the sister the village thinks poisoned them all, until a smooth-talking cousin arrives

Set on a private island off Massachusetts, four teens and a summer accident nobody will explain

1960s North Carolina: an abandoned young woman who raised herself becomes the prime suspect when the local golden boy is found dead

When her poet mother is jailed for poisoning a lover, Astrid moves through a string of Los Angeles foster homes, still under her mother's spell

Casey waits tables in 1997 Boston, still writing the novel she started six years ago and grieving her mother, when two very different men fall for her

1990s Glasgow: two boys from rival sides fall in love against everything around them