Deborah Moggach
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English
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Petra's romantic life has always been a car-crash, and even in her sixties she's still capable of getting it disastrously wrong. But then she falls in love with Jeremy, an old chum, visiting from abroad. The fatal catch? Jeremy is her best friend's husband. But just as Petra is beginning to relax into her happy ever after, she finds herself catapulted to West Africa, and to Bev, her best friend who she's been betraying so spectacularly. Meanwhile,...
2) The carer
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Language
English
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James is getting on a bit and needs full-time help. So Phoebe and Robert, his middle-aged offspring, employ Mandy, who seems willing to take him off their hands. But as James regales his family with tales of Mandy's virtues, their shopping trips and the shared pleasure of their journeys to garden centres, Phoebe and Robert sense something is amiss. Is this really their father, the distant figure who never once turned up for a sports day, now happily...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Pru's husband has walked out, leaving her alone to contemplate her future. She's missing not so much him, but the life they once had - picnicking on the beach with small children, laughing together, nestling up like spoons in the cutlery drawer as they sleep. Now there's just a dip on one side of the bed and no one to fill it. In a daze, Pru goes off to a friend's funeral. Usual old hymns, words of praise and a eulogy but ... it doesn't sound like...
4) Tulip fever
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Seventeenth-century Amsterdam - a city in the grip of tulip fever. Sophia's husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his beautiful young bride. But as the portrait grows, so does the passion between Sophia and the painter; and ambitions, desires and dreams breed an intricate deception...
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English
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When retired actor Buffy decides to up sticks from London and move to rural Wales, he has no idea what he is letting himself in for. In possession of a run-down B&B that leans more towards the shabby than the chic and is miles from nowhere, he realises he needs to fill the beds - and fast. Enter a motley collection of guests: Harold, whose wife has run off with a younger woman; Amy, who's been unexpectedly dumped by her (not-so) weedy boyfriend and...
8) In the dark
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Series
Language
English
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Historical, domestic and sexy, this is a story of war, meat and desire on the home front, set in South London's dark and dirty wartime streets during World War I.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Ent
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
British comedy drama starring Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Dev Patel. Following on from their exploits in 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' (2011), Muriel (Smith) is now fully-fledged manager of the hotel owned by Sonny Kapoor (Patel) and Evelyn (Dench), along with new-found companion Douglas (Nighy) help to run the day-to-day business. When Sonny realises that he has only one room left in his ever-expanding hotel, he decides to dream bigger...