Two of Rosie Thomas's best-loved titles, IRIS AND RUBY and LOVERS AND NEWCOMERS, packaged together for the first time as an ebook set. IRIS AND RUBY tells the story of mothers, daughters and the distance between three generations of one family. Stiflingly quiet and claustrophobic, Iris Black's house is Cairo is suddenly disturbed by the unexpected arrival of her troubled and wilful teenage granddaughter, Ruby. Ruby has run away from England to seek solace with the grandmother she hasn't seen for many years. As she helps Iris document her deteriorating memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War Two, an unlikely bond is formed. In LOVERS AND NEWCOMERS, old friends are reunited to start a new stage of their lives. When Miranda is widowed, she decides her crumbling country house needs filling - she invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and all have their own reasons for accepting. But as old attractions resurface alongside new tensions, they discover that the clock can't be put back.