Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman, rival executive assistants at a merged publishing company, both compete for the same promotion.

The unnamed narrator, a communist double agent, is captured in Vietnam and “re-educated” by his old friend Man, who is now the camp commissar.

Cath Avery finishes both her huge Simon Snow fan fiction, Carry On, and the original short story she owes her fiction-writing professor, proving she can write her own stories.

Ove, a grumpy widower who had planned to die, is pulled back into life by his neighbours, especially the pregnant Parvaneh and her daughters.

Park drives Eleanor to her uncle’s home in Minnesota so she can escape her abusive stepfather, Richie, and the two are separated.

Lydia Lee, the favourite daughter of a Chinese American family in 1970s Ohio, drowned when she rowed out onto the lake at night, intending to start a new life but forgetting she could not swim.

Jude dies after years of trauma and self-harm.

The narrator, confined to a room by her doctor husband for a “rest cure,” tears off the yellow wallpaper to free the woman she believes is trapped behind it.

Violet is left alone with Johnna after her family leaves.

Anne Boleyn is executed for treason after failing to give Henry VIII a son, and her brother George is executed too.