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1) About a boy
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Description
'How cool was Will Freeman?' Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy. Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart,...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Description
When Christie Lynch, journalist and single mother of two, appears as a guest on a daytime TV talk show, she could never have imagined that it would lead to a new career. Spotted by hugely successful talent agent, Julia Keen, Christie can't help but be impressed by Julia's charm and stellar client list. And once Julia takes Christie on as a client, Christie's life changes for ever as Julia secures her a high-profile presenting job on a daily chat show....
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Publisher
Trapeze
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
This is a multi-generational novel that follows two women from the same family as they each embark on their own journeys through single parenthood in 1953 and 2012 respectively. It explores the varying perception of single parenthood and was inspired by Wallace's family as her grandmother raised her mother alone in the 1950s.
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Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2011
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Description
Can love conquer all? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French Affair and The Perfect Match. It's not as if Nel hadn't enough on her plate already: organising a farmers' market in the picturesque Paradise Fields and keeping track of her unnervingly beautiful teenage daughter - plus sorting out a houseful of animals - are quite enough to keep her busy. The last thing she needs is another...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Thirty-year-old Paige Dougall?s life is a mess. Only a year ago she was smashing all of her life goals - handsome husband, high-flying job, cute kid. But in just under twelve months everything has gone wrong. Nursing a broken heart, single mother Paige returns to Kindness Cottage, her childhood home nestled in a picture-perfect Scottish village, to try and get her life together. Despite the backdrop of rolling hills and lavender-scented air, Paige...
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Eight-year-old Carmel Wakeford becomes separated from her mother at a local children's festival, and is found by a man who claims to be her estranged grandfather. He tells her that her mother has had an accident and that she is to live with him for now. As days become weeks with her new family, Carmel realises that this man believes she has a special gift - that she is potentially a saviour. While her mother desperately tries to find her, Carmel is...
8) The rescue
Author
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Taylor McAden is a volunteer fireman who has never allowed a relationship with a woman to mature. At a road traffic accident he forms a relationship with a victim, a young single mother, that might just lead to a deeper commitment if he can allow it.
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When Grace and Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. It seems the obvious thing to do: they get on well, the house is large, and neither of them likes partying or loud music. There's one thing they've forgotten though: what if one of them wants to bring a lover into the house?
11) Lovers and liars
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Already abandoned by her father, and unhappy at home, Emily is heartbroken when John leaves the village. Her life takes a devastating turn for the worse when she gives birth to a child. She dare not reveal the identity of the child's father or there will be a terrible price to pay. Many miles away, John is trying to forget Emily and forge a new life. Having carried her in his heart for years, a chance encounter leads him to believe she has forgotten...
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Isabelle Pool, recently graduated from high school and pregnant with her art teacher's baby, is just about out of options. Her mother is dead, her father's a drunk and the art teacher is too much of a head case to help raise the child. Izzy knows she can be a good mother, but without any money or prospects, she's left searching. So when she's offered a space in The Infinite Family Project - a utopian ideal funded by an eccentric billionaire - she...
13) Perhaps tomorrow
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Mattie Maguire is a 26-year-old widow with an infant son. Since her husband, Brian, died three years before, she has struggled to keep the family's East End coal business solvent, as well as taking care of her troubled mother-in-law. But unbeknown to Mattie, life is about to get even tougher. Maguire's is in the path of the proposed Wapping to Mile End Railway extension that Amos Stebbins is trying to raise capital for, and he has his sights set on...
14) Watermelon
Author
Series
Walsh Family volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Description
James absconds leaving Claire with a new-born baby. In the absence of a better offer, she goes home to her family. There she recovers from her upset, so much so, that when James tries to get back into her life, he finds he's in for a big surprise.
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Hebe is living happily alone with her son in Cornwall. She has two chief talents in life - cooking and making love - and these she has exercised with dignity, in privacy and for profit. It is when separate strands of the web of Hebe's life become entangled that the even tenor of her days is threatened, and her life is changed.
16) Snatched
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Her schoolgirl daughter disappears, her little boy nearly dies in a fire - single mother Sue Day thinks things can't get worse. But Sue's troubles are just beginning. As neighbours, social services and police turn the spotlight on Sue and her ex-husband, someone is making sure that her luck stays bad.
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For ten years, Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack, and as a young unmarried mother, life has never been easy. Every new coat and pair of shoes was bought with what little money she could scrape together as a singer on the stage. But when the theatre work dries up, Delia faces a dilemma: continue the search for employment with no knowing whether she'll find the stability and security her son needs, or return to the place that should...
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Series
No greater love volume 5
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As a child, Meg always dreamed of the perfect Christmas... This year, she can make it come true for her own little boy. There will be a turkey and all the trimmings, a glittering tree, and a stocking hung over a roaring fire. Who cares if there's no devoted husband in the picture? She and Lucas will be just fine on their own. But then a chance meeting with a stranger in New York unravels everything she's planned. Will Meg finally get everything she...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Polly has always been the high-flier of the family, with the glamorous city lifestyle to match. Clare is a single mum with two children, struggling to make ends meet in a ramshackle cottage. The two sisters are poles apart and barely on speaking terms. But then Polly's fortunes change unexpectedly and her world comes crashing down. Left penniless and with nowhere else to go, she's forced back to the village where she and Clare grew up, and the sisters...
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Liverpool, 1955. Actress Dorothy Wilson is offered her first major part in a feature film. But her boyfriend Sam wants her to settle down and start a family. Meanwhile, Lynne Donegan is bringing up her daughter on her own, eking out a meagre living as a dressmaker. The two women's lives are destined to intertwine in ways they could never imagine.