Idiots First
by Bernard Malamud | 
A Thirsty Evil
by Gore Vidal | 
Tokyo Cancelled
by Rana Dasgupta | 
Women with Men
by Richard Ford |
Song of the Silent Snow
by Hubert Selby Jr. | 
Later, at the Bar
by Rebecca Barry | 
The Age of Grief
by Jane Smiley | 
Dirty Love
by Andre Dubus III | 
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka | 
Black Tickets
by Jayne Anne Phillips | 
Use Me
by Elissa Schappell | 
Grey Area
by Will Self | 
On the Yankee Station
by William Boyd | 
The Quantity Theory of Insanity
by Will Self | 
The People on Privilege Hill
by Jane Gardam | 
The Shell Seekers
by Rosamunde Pilcher | 
Mary and O'Neil
by Justin Cronin | 
Under Gemini
by Rosamunde Pilcher | 
The Day of the Storm
by Rosamunde Pilcher | 
The Carousel
by Rosamunde Pilcher |
Through thick mist and a cold east wind, Lavinia returns to Scotland. Up at the big house Mrs Farquhar is dying. Seeing Lachlan again,. Lavinia remembers her childhood holidays there: swimming in the loch, the picnics, bottle-feeding the lambs down at the farm and the evenings when they danced reels. Most of all, she remembers Mrs Farquhar's grandson Rory. In the house, as the old lady lies serene and beautiful in the bed she has slept in since coming home to Lachlan as a bride, Lavinia meets Rory once again. Flowers in the Rain is one of sixteen stories, each giving another magical glimpse into Rosamunde Pilcher's world. The world in which most prefer to live all the time.