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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2003
Description
On a street in an unnamed town in the north of England, perfectly ordinary people are doing totally ordinary things - but then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening and no one who witnesses it will be quite the same again.
Author
Publisher
Abacus
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Ben Bradford always wanted to be a photographer, but life got in the way and he became a junior partner in a major law firm. When he discovers that his wife is having an affair, he realises that he has the opportunity to cast off his old life and try again.
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Pub. Date
2020
Description
Who would you be, if you hadn't turned out to be the person you are now? Dawn is a death doula, and spends her life helping people make the final transition peacefully. But when the plane she's on plummets, she finds herself thinking not of the perfect life she has, but the life she was forced to abandon fifteen years ago - when she left behind a career in Egyptology, and a man she loved. Against the odds, she survives, and the airline offers her...
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Pub. Date
2018
Description
On the one hand, if Essie hadn't written that letter - the one that only her best friend was meant to see - then she'd still be living like an actual proper grown-up, tucked up with Paul in his picture-perfect cottage, maybe even planning their wedding. On the other hand (if her true feelings hadn't accidentally taken the Internet by storm, that is) she never would have met Zillah and Conor - not to mention Lucas. And she'd never have found out just...
Author
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Four privileged students toast the end of their exams, but one dark night will change their perfect lives for ever. As the friends move into their glamorous careers - fashion, music, politics - each tries to put the past behind them. But no matter how high their stars climb, they cannot escape the dreadful truth.
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Publisher
Thorpe
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Fifteen years ago, Bettina May's life veered off course in one disastrous night. Still reeling from the shock of losing everything she thought was hers, Bettina opens a bakery in a village and throws herself into the comfort of breadmaking. She spends her days kneading dough and measuring ingredients, and begins to heal - until someone who knows what happened that night walks into the bakery. In the pause of a heartbeat, fifteen years disappear, and...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Penguin audio
Pub. Date
2017
Description
A novel about love, music and coming to terms with the past, from the author of the international bestseller The Rosie Project. On the cusp of 50, Adam Sharp has a loyal partner, earns a good income as an IT contractor and is the music-trivia expert at quiz nights. It's the lifestyle he wanted, but something's missing. Two decades ago, on the other side of the world, his part-time piano playing led him into a passionate relationship with Angelina...
Author
Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2008
Description
When aspiring novelist Christopher Flinders drops out of university to write his masterpiece, his family is sceptical, but when he is taken up by the London editor Owen Goddard and his charming wife Diana it seems success is only just around the corner.
Author
Publisher
Isis
Pub. Date
2017
Description
In the quaint seaside town of Newbay, a beginner's cookery course is starting. And three very different students have signed up... Liz's husband has left her for a twenty-something clean-eating blogger. John, newly widowed after fifty years of marriage. To 30-year-old workaholic Bella, the course is a welcome escape from her job. Their only common ground: between them, they can barely boil an egg! Enter talented chef Alex, who is determined to introduce...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Timothy Gandy has kept his lifetime's ambition secret for 40 years. Now, suddenly (if tragically) released from the hen-pecked tedium of his ordinary existence, he is unexpectedly free to realise his dreams. He will embark on a Grand Tour of Europe, following in the footsteps of the aristocrats of the 18th century. He anticipates high art, culture and pleasant weather. He never expected to encounter new friendships - and possibly even love - along...
13) A time for us
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Lucy Nolan is the golden girl. The only daughter of local grocers, Sally and Mike Nolan, she's grown up in a home of total love and security. The one thing her heart desires is that Jack Hanson might ask her to marry him, and when he does eventually propose, Lucy is prepared to give up everything to be with him - even though it means leaving her beloved parents to live abroad where Jack has been offered an exciting business opportunity. But then,...
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Series
Publisher
Isis
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Patrick, a 50-year-old professor of American Studies, drinker and womaniser, has been given six months to live. In a rural part of Cambridgeshire, a teenager dies in a motorcycle accident. When his heart is transplanted into Patrick's chest, the lives of two strangers are forever conjoined. Patrick makes a good recovery from surgery, but has the strange feeling that his old life "won't have him". He discovers that his donor's name was Drew Beamish,...
15) Clock dance
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Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college student considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother but isn't sure she ever will be. Then, one day, Willa receives a startling phone call from a stranger. Without fully understanding...
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Rosanna is part of a close, extended Fenland family and the youngest of three cousins. As she grows up, the others turn to her when they are unhappy or in trouble. To find her own happiness, she has to break free and finally make them aware that she has feelings too.
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When Lewis Cawthorne has a heart attack in his early forties, he takes it as a wake-up call. So he and his wife Charlotte leave behind life in the fast lane and Lew opens the antique shop he has dreamed of since he was a little boy. Bonnie Brookland was brought up in the antiques trade and now works for the man who bought out her father's business, but she isn't happy there. So when she walks into Lew's shop, she knows this is the place for her. As...
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Freddie Barcussy knows hardship and pain. His parents Annie and Levi are struggling to make ends meet, both suffering with illness and poverty. Freddie is an outsider at school, misunderstood and angry. They need their luck to change. Unbeknown to his parents, Freddie holds the key to their future. He has a gift, a gift he has told no one about. If he can learn how to overcome his fears, he could use it to change all their lives for ever. Searching...
Author
Series
The Penwith Trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Against the beauty of Cornwall, a story of two women struggling with their past: one cannot remember hers, the other cannot forget... When Hebe receives a life-changing diagnosis at only 53, she struggles to make sense of what it will mean for her, her job and the man she loves. With memories slipping away by the day, she flees to the one place she has always felt safe and peaceful - Cornwall, and the house her family spent so many summers in. Lucy...
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Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Stella is married, she has a child and a fulfilling job. She lives with her young family in a house in the suburbs. Her life is happy and unremarkable, but she is a little lonely - her husband travels a lot for work and so she is often alone in the house with only her daughter for company. One day a stranger appears at her door, a man Stella's never seen before. He says he just wants to talk to her, nothing more. She refuses. The next day he comes...