Dames Delight (novel) 1964

Georgy Girl (novel) 1965

The Bogeyman (novel) 1966

The Travels of Maudie Tipstaff (novel) 1967

The Park (novel) 1968

Miss Owen-Owen Is at Home (novel) 1969

Fenella Phizackerley (novel) 1970

Mr. Bone's Retreat (novel) 1971

The Rash Adventurer: The Rise and Fall of Charles Edward Stuart (biography) 1973

The Seduction of Mrs. Pendlebury (novel) 1974

Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman: William Makepeace Thackeray (biography) 1978

Mother Can You Hear Me? (novel) 1979

The Bride of Lowther Fell: A Romance (novel) 1980

Marital Rites (novel) 1981

Significant Sisters: The Grassroots of Active Feminism, 1839–1939 (biographies) 1984

Private Papers (novel) 1986

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography (biography) 1988

Have the Men Had Enough? (novel) 1989

Lady's Maid (novel) 1990

The Battle for Christabel (novel) 1991

Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller (biography) 1993

Mothers' Boys (novel) 1994

Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir (memoirs) 1995

Shadow Baby (novel) 1996

Rich Desserts and Captain's Thin: A Family and Their Times, 1831–1931 (history) 1997

The Memory Box (novel) 1999

Precious Lives (memoirs) 1999

Good Wives? (memoirs and biographies) 2001