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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In 2012, Elena Ferrante?s My Brilliant Friend introduced readers to the unforgettable Elena and Lila, whose lifelong friendship provides the backbone for the Neapolitan Novels. The Story of a New Name is the second book in this series. With these books, which the New Yorker?s James Wood described as ?large, captivating, amiably peopled...a beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal,? Ferrante proves herself to be one of Italy?s most accomplished...
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Pub. Date
2019
Description
Holly and Roz spend most of their days together. They like the same jokes, loathe the same people and tell each other everything. So when single mum Holly gets a shot at her dream job after putting everything on hold to raise her daughter, she assumes her friend will be dying to pop the champagne with her. But is she just imagining things, or is Roz not quite as happy for her as she should be? As Holly starts to take a closer look at Roz's life outside...
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Pub. Date
2018
Description
Best friend. Soul mate. Confidante. Backstabber. Amy thought she knew who Melissa was - then again, Amy also thought she was on the verge of the wedding of her dreams to her long-distance fiance. When her career suddenly begins to unravel, Amy pays a surprise trip home to London. Her boyfriend Jack is out, but it looks like another woman has been making herself at home. And that other woman is Melissa. Amy has lost her job, her fiance, her best friend...
4) Stolen
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Pub. Date
2010
Description
When a beautiful blonde girl is found half-drowned on a beach, she has no memory of who she is or what horrors have left her there. But an article about her in a Brighton newspaper rings alarm bells for beautician Dale, who shows the police photographs of Lotte Wainright.
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Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2013
Description
'Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy' - Candis Welcome to Blossom Street - where dreams come true. The ultimate indulgence of Debbie Macomber?s bestselling Blossom Street novels. Including: The Shop on Blossom Street, A Good Yarn, Susannah?s Garden, Christmas in Seattle, Back on Blossom Street, Twenty Wishes, Summer on Blossom Street, Hannah?s List, A Turn in the Road and Thursdays at Eight, Make time for friends, Make time for Debbie Macomber.
6) Bunny
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort - a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny', and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything...
7) Players
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Harry Hunter is the new golden boy of the literary world. With his books selling by the millions, the paparazzi on his tail, and a supermodel on each arm, he seems to have the world at his feet. But his angelic looks hide a darker side, a side that conceals a lifetime of lies and deceit.
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Appears on list
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On Friday nights a group of six different and disparate women meet. They range in age from Jules, who is 22 and wants to be a DJ, to Eleanor, who is a retired professional and walks with a stick. When one of them meets a man the whole dynamic changes. The bonds that have been so closely forged are tested - and some will break.
10) What women want
Author
Publisher
Blue Door
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Bea, Kate and Ellen have always known that they can depend on each other, no matter what. But as each reaches a new phase in their life, their bond is put to the test.
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Description
It's not always easy living in a close-knit community where everyone knows everyone else's business. Growing up in a quiet West Country village, butcher's daughter Rebecca Peterson and her best friend Cindy Mason are keen to expand their horizons and see more of the world. On leaving school, Rebecca heads off to university in Cardiff, while Cindy gets a job at the new local supermarket - but dreams of becoming a model or actress. The two friends promise...
13) A woman's life
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Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Three little girls, born at the outbreak of the Second World War, grow up in widely differing circumstances and as women form an improbable friendship. Then, in 1978, the Irish situation strains loyalties between the three women.
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Series
Publisher
Virago
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Dulcie Mainwaring is always helping others, but never looks out for herself. Her friend Viola is besotted by Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if Dulcie helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's young niece. And perhaps Dulcie herself, however ridiculous it may be, is falling, just a little, for Aylwin.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
As the needles clack, and the garments grow, the conversation moves on from patterns and yarn to life, love and everything. The women in the Friday Night Knitting Club are of different ages, but they are drawn together by threads of affection that prove as durable as the sweaters they knit.
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Liverpool, 1945. Three women, close friends, return home from the war trying to fit back into their old lives after they've been demobbed. They've been thrown together by the war and shared all sorts of good and bad times. Now their old lives seem dull in comparison, but not for long.
17) Fast friends
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Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Meeting up with Roz Vallender has devastating consequences for Camilla. Thankfully Loulou Marks comes to the rescue, persuading her that all is not lost. Loulou is great at giving other people advice, and when Camilla starts taking it she discovers that life in the fast lane is a lot more fun than being a cheated-on housewife.
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Alice's life has become a bit boring lately. Her friends are busy getting married and having babies, but she's not ready for those changes in her own life - not even sure she still loves her boyfriend. Then she meets Gretchen. A brand new, fun and unencumbered friend. Gretchen knows how to have a good time and she also has a totally gorgeous brother. Before she knows it, Alice has been swept up into her new best friend's world. But Gretchen has a...
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To make up for the love and passion that is missing from her life, Jessica spends the occasional afternoon at the local cinema, lost in romantic films. But when an unexpected glass of champagne is offered to her in a Liverpool hotel, the consequences turn out to be shattering. When Bertie discovers his wife's deceit, he is ruthless in his revenge. He sells their house and disappears with her beloved children, leaving Jessica devastated and alone....