Books like Seasons of Change by Margaret McDonagh

Pride and Prejudice is a classic novel by Jane Austen.

Two young lovers, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, form a private detective agency and are hired to locate a missing woman named Jane Finn, whose disappearance threatens post‑war Britain.

Charles Dickens’s classic critique of Victorian industrial society, “Hard Times” follows schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind as he confronts the limits of utilitarian philosophy and the power of imagination.

Anne Brontë’s second novel follows Helen Huntingdon as she escapes an abusive marriage, takes on a new life, and seeks to protect her son from her husband’s harmful influence.

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, married detectives, are recruited as spies during World War II to uncover disguised Nazis among guests at a seaside hotel.

Peter Mayle shares the joys and quirks of settling into a 200‑year‑old stone farmhouse in the Luberon, Provence, exploring local customs, seasonal rhythms, and the region’s culinary delights.

Susannah Nelson, 50, returns to the garden she loved as a teenager, but the past she's trying to escape is still there, leading her to question everything about her life and relationships with her loved ones.

As a viscount's daughter, Coralee Whitmore writes about London’s elite for a ladies’ gazette, but resolves into a determined journalist when her sister’s death triggers a dangerous investigation into the Earl of Tremaine.

Seventeen‑year‑old Jessie on Nantucket in 1969 faces family secrets as the Levin siblings navigate civil‑rights protests, a Vietnam‑deployed brother, a pregnant sister in Boston, and a historic summer that mirrors the nation’s turmoil.

Ria’s quiet life with her husband and friends turns upended by a shocking discovery that forces her to rethink trust and love.

When her teenage daughter is hospitalized after a severe eating disorder, chef Dana Sue confronts her cheating husband’s return and must find forgiveness to help her self‑destructive child heal.

Set in a 1962 Irish village, two families navigate love, friendship, and change when a charming American millionaire visits, bringing drama to the quiet town’s future.

In war-torn France, Jo McMahon, an Italian-Irish girl from the tenements of Brooklyn, tends to six seriously wounded soldiers in a makeshift medical unit. Enemy bombs have destroyed her hospital convoy, and now Jo singlehandedly struggles to keep her patients and herself alive in a cramped and freezing tent close to German troops. There is a growing tenderness between her and one of her patients, a Scottish officer, but Jo's heart is seared by the pain of all she has lost and seen. Nearing her breaking point, she fights to hold on to joyful memories of the past, to the times she shared with her best friend, Kay, whom she met in nursing school. Half a world away in the Pacific, Kay is trapped in a squalid Japanese POW camp in Manila, one of thousands of Allied men, women, and children whose fates rest in the hands of a sadistic enemy. Far from the familiar safety of the small Pennsylvania coal town of her childhood, Kay clings to memories of her happy days posted in Hawaii, and the handsome flyer who swept her off her feet in the weeks before Pearl Harbor. Surrounded by cruelty and death, Kay battles to maintain her sanity and save lives as best she can . . . and live to see her beloved friend Jo once more. When the conflict at last comes to an end, Jo and Kay discover that to achieve their own peace, they must find their placeand the hope of lovein a world that's forever changed. With rich, superbly researched detail, Teresa Messineo's thrilling novel brings to life the pain and uncertainty of war and the sustaining power of love and friendship, and illuminates the lives of the women who risked everything to save others during a horrifying time.

447 pages : 24 cm

Ruth faces uncertainty in her seemingly perfect marriage and family life, as a potential conspiracy over her baby threatens her peace in Bath and Bristol.