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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Chloe needs a holiday. She's sick of making wedding dresses and her partner is having trouble at work. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spain - perfect. Hugh is not a happy man. His immaculate wife seems more interested in the granite for the new kitchen than in him, and he works so hard to pay for it all, he barely has time to see their children. But his old school-friend Gerard has lent them a luxury villa in...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Maureen Bancroft has never learned the art of putting herself first. As a widow with a gentle temperament and humble ways, she's been easy to take advantage of. All that changes when an unexpected windfall comes her way. Determined to make up for lost time, she decides to take a holiday and, needing a companion, looks up her friend Barbara Hayle. Glamorous, and with a successful career on the stage, Barbara seems to be everything that Maureen is not....
3) French braid
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone is determined not to notice. Over at her studio, she wants space and silence. She won?t allow any family clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond. Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that forms the Garretts? family life over the decades, whether that?s a painstaking Easter lunch or giving a child a ride, a fateful train journey or an unexpected homecoming....
4) Windswept
Author
Publisher
Severn House Digital
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When her fianc� is delayed in London, Emily Harrington sets off on their long-awaited vacation to the exclusive Caribbean resort of Island Bluffs on her own. Fearing boredom, she is pleasantly surprised to discover that this romantic resort is filled with fascinating people: Roger Stirhew, a foremost travel writer, whose pernicious wit and words prove deadly; his disillusioned wife Jessica; Marietta St. John, an ageing society columnist; Nora, her...
Author
Publisher
Short Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When her old flame Sam rings up one day and invites her on a villa holiday in Italy, Jen is completely thrown off balance. Sam, as she cannot help but recall, was the best kiss of her life. With her husband Marcus constantly travelling the world for work, and seven-year-old Alfie still in the marital bed, the joys of marriage and motherhood are thin on the ground for Jen these days... What could be more appealing than being with old friends and recapturing...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
An Almost Perfect Holiday is a warm and witty story of friendship, family and hope, by the Sunday Times bestseller Lucy Diamond. 'No one creates funny, flawed and immediately relatable characters like Lucy. I adored this book from the very first page' Cathy Bramley, bestselling author of A Patchwork Family The holidays are here, and down in Cornwall Lorna?s cottages are fully booked. The sun loungers are lined up beside the swimming pool, the sky...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Paddington is in charge of the ?EYETINNERY? and, as Mrs Bird mutters darkly, ?There?s no knowing where we might end up. ? But he?s planning some very good holiday ?doings? indeed for the Browns. And Paddington himself becomes the only bear ever to ride in the famous Tour de France bicycle race - and win a prize!.
Author
Publisher
Severn House Digital
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Having been recently widowed in her forties, shy Jane Redfern has finally plucked up the courage to head off on holiday by herself. Embarking on a ten-day coach trip to Germany, the last thing she anticipates is to meet someone new and fall in love. But gradually she finds herself drawn to her fellow passenger, Shropshire farmer Dave Falconer, who has also lost his partner. As Jane?s shy English reserve begins to melt away in the stunning surroundings...
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Language
English
Description
When Fred Carpenter suggests to his wife, Sally, that they should take a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads, she is filled with trepidation. Nevertheless she summons her courage and they and their bull-terrier Bill set off, with Fred at the helm of Dogfish Three. Sally's misgivings are soon justified, as a series of disasters - human, nautical and canine - threaten to ruin their holiday. Then everything changes as they make friends with the boating...
10) The lie
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Language
English
Description
I know your name?s not really Jane Hughes . . . Jane Hughes has a loving partner, a job in an animal sanctuary and a tiny cottage in rural Wales. She?s happier than she?s ever been but her life is a lie. Jane Hughes does not really exist. Five years earlier Jane and her then best friends went on holiday but what should have been the trip of a lifetime rapidly descended into a nightmare that claimed the lives of two of the women. Jane has tried to...
12) Picture perfect
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Sonal needs to capture a great family picture for her school photography project - but it?s impossible when everyone?s always so busy! Luckily they?re heading off on a family camping trip which should provide lots of great photo opportunities ? shouldn?t it? Faced with an enforced digital detox, will Sonal?s family come together and have fun ? or will the trip end in complete disaster?.
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