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"Disturbing and witty . . . A deftly-described odyssey that places the battle of the sexes in a new arena" from the author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (The Sunday Times).
Meet Desmond Fletcher. At forty-two years old, his marriage has ended and he finds himself all alone in an apartment above an electrical repair shop lent to him by his soon-to-be-ex-wife's brother. With not much else to do besides his job driving coaches, Desmond has a...
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"Classic Moggach: readable, memorable . . . an unashamedly colorful journey across continents, with clothes, food, landscapes brought joyously to life." -The Times (London)
"Nobody in the world knows our secret . . . that I've ruined Bev's life, and she's ruined mine."
Petra's romantic life has always been a car crash, and even in her sixties she's still getting it disastrously wrong. And then she falls in love with Jeremy, an old friend visiting...
3) The Carer
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"[A] social comedy with some brilliant people observations about ageing and a devilish plot twist" from the author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (The Times, London).
After their elderly father's fall, Phoebe and her brother, Robert, couldn't be happier with his new caregiver, Mandy. She came to them with great recommendations and has given the brilliant, yet lonely, widower a new lease on life-though he is gossiping about the locals' love...
4) Seesaw
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The bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel delivers a "provocative, enthralling, bang up-to-the-minute" thriller (Daily Mail).
It all starts with a prize. The Price family wins a holiday trip to Florida and gets their photo in the paper. They're all there, the picture-perfect family in front of their gorgeous home. But it's awkward, adolescent, seventeen-year-old Hannah who catches someone's eye. And only days later, she's gone.
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5) Porky
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The bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel "illuminates with great compassion how love can so easily go off the rails" (Daily Mail).
In the shadow of Heathrow airport, a girl grows up in a family of four with her unaffectionate, absent mother, her precocious younger brother, and her father. Once a traveling fairground worker, her father's been forced to settle down. Now he sits at home, dreaming up schemes to make money, drinking with...
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"A darkly funny novel about betrayal, loneliness and the surprising pleasure of being single again" from the author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Good Housekeeping).
At sixty-nine years old, Pru has found herself alone for the first time in her life. Her grown children are out of the house, and her husband, Greg, has filed for divorce. She attributes Greg's betrayal to a cancer scare and a more-than-midlife crisis, but that doesn't make her...
7) The Ex-Wives
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The demise of Russell Buffery's latest marriage has put the sixty-one-year-old actor in a reflective mood. After all, his three ex-wives-the journalist, the new-age housewife, the antique dealer-have easily found their way without "Buffy", and his connections to his children are tenuous at best. Spurned and alone, he still wonders where it all went wrong. Until he meets Celeste...
Only twenty-three and new to London, the fresh-faced young woman has...
8) Stolen
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As flirtatious as she is rebellious, Marianne has always wanted out of her hometown of Ashford. And at eighteen, she's found the perfect man to take her away. Pakistani Salim Siddiqi is ridiculously handsome and stunningly smart. While Marianne waltzes through town in suede miniskirts and knee-high boots (it is the sixties after all), Salim reads Wordsworth and Keats.
After their wedding, the honeymoon seems to last forever. But having two children...
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Short stories from the acclaimed British novelist who "writes unflinchingly about family life, divorce, children, and the ups and downs of relationships" (The Independent).
Witty, insightful, and keenly observant, the stories in Fool for Love revel in the complexities of modern relationships. From the joys and trials of marriage to the thrill of escaping into an illicit affair to mothers managing recalcitrant teens-or worse, adult children who...
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