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Pub. Date
2018
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Ruth Jones makes her debut with a witty and wise story of life's second chances and the dangers of taking them. With her trademark warmth, humanity and heart, she shows us the dangers of looking for something better, and forgetting that the best might not be in our past or yet to come - but right where we are now.
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Penguin
Pub. Date
2005
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From teenage love in an eighties holiday park to flatshares, relationships, career crises and children, this is the story of two lives separated yet forever entwined, prompting the question 'how do you know if something is really meant to be?'
3) Born bad
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18 years ago Harry made a decision that drove him from the place he knew and loved. Through every waking moment during the intervening years, he was haunted by what happened when he was a boy. He had never forgotten that girl with the laughing eyes. Now Harry is heading back. He needs to know the outcome of what happened all those years ago.
4) Come again
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Pub. Date
2020
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Kate's husband Luke - the man she loved from the moment she met him 28 years ago - died suddenly. Since then she's pushed away her friends, lost her job and everything is starting to fall apart. One day, she wakes up in the wrong room and in the wrong body. She is 18 again but remembers everything. This is her college room in 1992. This is the first day of Freshers' Week. And this is the day she first meets Luke. But Luke is not the man that she lost:...
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Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells...
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Susannah and Rob were childhood sweethearts. But as with most early love affairs, they broke up, moved on and now find themselves in very different places. And not entirely happy - who is? A chance meeting between them sends shockwaves through their lives. What happens when your first love makes a surprise reappearance?
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
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When Katherine has the chance to go to university, little does she expect to find herself in love with the son of the famous Jacob Goldman. When things go wrong she flees to Rome, but ten years on, she returns to find the Goldmans again. A little wiser and a lot more grown-up, Katherine faces her future.
11) Chocolate wishes
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Pub. Date
2010
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In the picture-perfect Lancashire village of Sticklepond, confectioner Chloe Lyon dispenses inspirational sweet treats containing a prediction for each customer. If only her own life was as easy to forecast - perhaps Chloe could have foreseen being jilted at the altar. Could now be the time for her to make a wish of her own?
12) If you were me
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Carlotta O'Keefe is happily engaged, and the wedding plans are coming together. She's clear about her future path, both personally and in her busy career. Maybe Chris doesn't make her heart race every time she sees him, but you can't have that feeling for ever. Can you? Then, on a trip to Seville, Carlotta runs into Luke Evans. Luke broke her heart so long ago she'd almost convinced herself she'd forgotten him. Now, he's not that boy any more, but...
13) Love for Lydia
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Methuen
Pub. Date
2007
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Lydia Aspen - a seemingly shy girl from a wealthy but isolated background - is encouraged by her aunts to discover the delights of growing up. Entrusting her education to Mr Richardson, it soon becomes clear that Lydia enjoys captivating the young men that become her companions.
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Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. Following the death of her husband, Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a century remain unrequited?
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Pub. Date
2019
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Posy Montague is approaching her 70th birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonising decision. Despite the memories the house holds, and the exquisite garden she has spent 25 years creating, the house is crumbling around her, and Posy...
17) Love me
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Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2009
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'Love Me' is a spiky, intense coming-of-age tale about love, loneliness, jealousy and obsession.
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Pub. Date
2021
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Get ready to escape with the page-turning novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Cornish Summer. From the outside, anyone would think that Lucy Palmer has it all: loving children, a dashing husband and a gorgeous home. But when her marriage to Michael comes to an abrupt and unexpected end, her life is turned upside down in a flash. As the truth of her marriage threatens to surface, Lucy seizes the opportunity to swap her house in London...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
04 09
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Powerful and moving, this is the remarkable true story of two children who helped each other survive their cold, unloving children's home only to be cruelly separated. Forty-five years on, they have found each other again and are happily married.
20) The great Gatsby
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A masterpiece, a dazzling social satire, and a milestone in twentieth century literature, The Great Gatsby peels away the layers of the glamorous twenties in the U.S. to display the coldness and cruelty at its heart.