How It All Began
By: Penelope Lively
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
When Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord P…
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1. Brother and Sister
By: Joanna Trollope
3.30
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Brought up by the same parents, but born to two different mothers, Nathalie and David have grown up… read more
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2. The Tortoise and the Hare
By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Jenkins
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The magnetic Evelyn Gresham, 52, is a barrister of considerable distinction. He has everything life… read more
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3. The New Mrs Clifton
By: Elizabeth Buchan
3.90
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
As the Second World War draws to a close, Intelligence Officer Gus Clifton surprises his sisters at… read more
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4. Morality Play
By: Barry Unsworth
3.76
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
The national bestseller: A medieval murder mystery full of the wonders of the time―and lessons for … read more
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"Justice is less easily applied to the strong than to the defenseless."-Barry Unsworth, Morality Play
"If we make our own meanings, God will oblige us to answer our own questions: He will leave us in the void without the comfort of his word."-Barry Unsworth, Morality Play
"When silence falls on the world then there is always one small sound that grows louder. I could hear the whispering and sighing of the snow and this sound was within me and without."-Barry Unsworth, Morality Play
"The player is always trapped in his own play but he must never allow the spectators to suspect this, they must always think that he is free. Thus the great art of the player is not in showing but in …"-Barry Unsworth, Morality Play
5. The Priory
By: Dorothy Whipple
4.21
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
The setting for this, the third novel by Dorothy Whipple Persephone have published, is Saunby Prior… read more
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"Love is happy only when it is confident. When it is humble, it is full of pain and misgiving; there is hardly any happiness to be had out of it at all."-Dorothy Whipple, The Priory
"As is usual with the ignorant, long words had the fascination for both girls that obstacles on the road have for a bad driver; instead of avoiding them they ran into them."-Dorothy Whipple, The Priory
6. How It All Began
By: Penelope Lively
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
When Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord P… read more
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7. Offshore
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.91
Format: 736 pages,
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a m… read more
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8. Closed Circle
By: Robert Goddard
4.15
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The year is 1931. The new and luxurious transatlantic liner Empress of Britain is on her eastward p… read more
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9. The Lost Garden
By: Helen Humphreys
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Fleeing war-torn London in 1941, gardener Gwen Davis leav… read more
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10. Emotionally Weird
By: Kate Atkinson
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
A hilarious and utterly original novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of Life Af… read more
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11. Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman (The Two Mrs Lloyd, #1)
By: Elizabeth Buchan
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Get ready to cheer for Rose Lloyd, a woman of young middle-age who proves that starting over doesn'… read more
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12. Second Honeymoon
By: Joanna Trollope
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Now that her third and last child has left the nest, Edie Boyd's life turns suddenly and uncomforta… read more
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13. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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14. Burma Sahib
By: Paul Theroux
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new… read more
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15. Lucky
By: Jane Smiley
3.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more
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16. The Keeper of Stories
By: Sally Page
4.08
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard … read more
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"Perhaps guilt is like a disease. You can have it without knowing you do."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I think it's in people stories that you discover the best of what we can be."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I don't think guilt asks for permission to come in. I don't think it knocks and waits politely on the mat."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I figured out long ago that if I listen to the few people who shout at me, I'm making them more important than they are. What they say will stay with me, upset me, and those loud voices would go on a…"-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
17. The Book of Beginnings
By: Sally Page
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more
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18. Broken Light
By: Joanne Harris
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Bernie Moon is feeling invisible. She's given her life to other people - her husband, her son, her … read more
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19. The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
By: Tricia Romano
4.28
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking history of America's most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legen… read more
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20. Windmill Hill
By: Lucy Atkins
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1970s, a single night in a remote hunting lodge with a Hollywood director and his leading la… read more
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21. This Family
By: Kate Sawyer
3.83
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more
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