Family life fiction
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Blue sisters
£9.99Blue sisters
‘IT MOVED ME DEEPLY’ LIV LITTLE
‘DEEPLY POIGNANT’ HARPERS BAZAAR
‘GORGEOUS’ RAVEN LEILANI
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN
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Confessions
£16.99Confessions
It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died long ago and now, orphaned on the cusp of adulthood, Cora is adrift and alone. Soon, a letter will arrive with the offer of a new life: far out on the ragged edge of Ireland, in the town where her parents were young, an estranged aunt can provide a home and fulfil a long-forgotten promise. There the story of her family is hidden, and in her presence will begin to unspool.
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Cuckoo
£18.99Cuckoo
After Nancy’s father dies, she is faced with two life-changing revelations. One – she has a half-brother she knew nothing about; Two – she’s expecting a baby. Her brother is clearly the result of an affair, and she’s having the baby with a man who, despite being in a relationship with Nancy for over two years, shows absolutely no signs of commitment. He’s not even in the same country as her right now. Nancy’s half-sister Rita is furious with their father and wants nothing to do with their new-found brother. But Nancy is intrigued. In a tumult of grief, bewilderment, fear and hope, she is eager to meet Oliver and find the answer to what really makes a family. And in a few months’ time, who is going to step up and help her bring up a baby?
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Cuckoo
£9.99Cuckoo
After Nancy’s father dies, she is faced with two life-changing revelations. One – she has a half-brother she knew nothing about; Two – she’s expecting a baby. Her brother is clearly the result of an affair, and she’s having the baby with a man who, despite being in a relationship with Nancy for over two years, shows absolutely no signs of commitment. He’s not even in the same country as her right now. Nancy’s half-sister Rita is furious with their father and wants nothing to do with their new-found brother. But Nancy is intrigued. In a tumult of grief, bewilderment, fear and hope, she is eager to meet Oliver and find the answer to what really makes a family. And in a few months’ time, who is going to step up and help her bring up a baby?
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Diary of an ordinary woman
£9.99Diary of an ordinary woman
Presented as the ‘edited’ journal of a real-life woman who was born in 1901 and died in 1995, this is a fiction where every word rings true. Millie starts her diary at the age of 13, on the eve of the Great War.
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East of Eden
£9.99East of Eden
Set in the 50 years after the Civil War, this novel tells the story of the Trasks and the Hamiltons. Adam Trask marries Kate. When she abandons him and their twin sons to run an infamous brothel, the family is consumed in a bitter struggle.
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Emma
£8.99Emma
Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen’s most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organises the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.
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Emma
£12.99Emma
The beloved author’s feistiest heroine in a gorgeous special edition to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of Austen’s birth.
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Evil eye
£9.99Evil eye
‘Filled with completely relatable yearning and achingly beautifully written, Evil Eye is a wonderful, moving and absorbing story of identity and belonging and learning to love yourself. I thought it was excellent’ Reader review ?????
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Excellent Women
£9.99Excellent Women
Mildred Lathbury is one of those ‘excellent women’ who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, capable of dealing with almost anything. As such, she often gets herself embroiled in other people’s lives – especially those of her glamorous new neighbours, the Napiers, whose marriage seems to be on the rocks.
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Family lore
£9.99Family lore
Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides to host her own living wake – bringing together her family and community to celebrate her long life – her sisters Matilde, Pastora and Camila are concerned. What has she foreseen? But Flor isn’t the only one with a secret. Matilde has tried to hide the extent of her husband’s infidelity for years, and now must confront the true state of her marriage. Pastora – always on a mission to solve her sisters’ problems – needs to come to terms with her past. And Camila, the youngest sibling, has decided she no longer wants to be taken for granted. Alongside their struggles, the next generation of Marte women face their own tumult of family obligations, infertility, and heartache.
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Good behaviour
£9.99Good behaviour
Molly Keane’s allusive and elegant novel about the St Charles family, an Anglo-Irish family in the last stages of decaying grace, examines how their crumbling codes of conduct are unable to save them from their own inadmissible desires.
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Heart, be at peace
£16.99Heart, be at peace
Small-town Ireland is a different place, the economy having recovered from the economic crash. Now the work is back, the dramas have all seemingly died down, the dark days of recession and struggle are over. But a new menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town, old grudges are festering and new ones are rising, and the peace of the community is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back the tide of an enemy none of them can touch.
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How to love your daughter
£9.99How to love your daughter
What damage do we do in the blindness of love? Thousands of miles from her home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit windows at two little girls. They are the daughters of her only daughter, the grandchildren she’s never met. At the centre of this mesmerising story is the woman’s quest to understand how a relationship that began in bliss – a mother besotted with her only child – arrived at a point of such unfathomable distance. Weaving back and forth in time, she unravels memories and long-buried feelings, retracing the infinite acts of parental care, each so mundane and apparently benign, that together may have undermined what she most treasured.
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