The adults

Caroline Hulse

Dark water

Elizabeth Lowry

Wildlife

Richard Ford

Clock dance

Anne Tyler

The rain watcher

Tatiana de Rosnay

Something in the water

Catherine Steadman

The after wife

Cass Hunter

If I die before I wake

Emily Koch

The Mars room

Rachel Kushner

Skin deep

Liz Nugent

An American marriage

Tayari Jones

Cross her heart

Sarah Pinborough

Three things about Elsie

Joanna Cannon

Women talking

Miriam Toews

The man I think I know

Mike Gayle

The other wife

Michael Robotham

The lost family

Jenna Blum

The vanishing season

Joanna Schaffhausen

The shepherd's hut

Tim Winton

The kiss quotient

Helen Hoang

Tangerine

Christine Mangan

The immortalists

Chloe Benjamin

Before your memory fades

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Warlight

Michael Ondaatje

Everything is lies

Helen Callaghan

The surrogate mother

Freida McFadden

Day of the dead

Nicci French

Last time I lied

Riley Sager

Still me

Jojo Moyes

A ladder to the sky

John Boyne