Perfect Happiness
By: Penelope Lively
3.84
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
Perfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively Frances, happil…
Want to Read"Why should the kindness of strangers be so unnerving?"-Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness
"Why should the kindness of strangers be so unnerving?"-Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness
"She stared with sudden suspicion at Frances. "You haven't been weeping, have you? Music can be fatal."-Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness
"She stared with sudden suspicion at Frances. "You haven't been weeping, have you? Music can be fatal."-Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness
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1. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more
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- fiction
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"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
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3. The Wedding Group
By: Elizabeth Taylor
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Cressy has grown up in a world of women, presided over by her artistic, eccentric grandfather. Rebe… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
4. A Dubious Legacy
By: Mary Wesley
3.75
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
On the threshold of their new life together, Margaret gave Henry a black eye and went straight to b… read more
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- fiction
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5. The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew
By: Mary Wesley
4.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
This lively and entertaining romp through England and Africa. The Vacillations of Poppy Carew opens… read more
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6. A Glass of Blessings
By: Barbara Pym
4.43
Format: 320 pages,
Well dressed and looked after, Wilmet is married to Rodney, a handsome army Major, working nine thi… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
7. In a Summer Season
By: Elizabeth Taylor
3.00
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
In a Summer Seasonis one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful cli… read more
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- british literature
8. Henry VIII
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.50
Format: None pages,
Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more
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- fiction
9. Blaming
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Jonathan Keates
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentiet… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
10. Angel
By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Taylor
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of ro… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
11. The Other Family
By: Joanna Trollope
4.40
Format: 436 pages,
When Richie Rossiter, once a famous pianist, dies unexpectedly, Chrissie knows that she must now te… read more
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12. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- british literature
13. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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14. The Child in Time
By: Ian McEwan
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his onl… read more
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15. The Camomile Lawn
By: Mary Wesley
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in t… read more
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16. An Imaginative Experience
By: Mary Wesley
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
A train screeches to a halt in the middle of the English countryside and, observed by her fascinate… read more
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17. A Necessary End (Inspector Banks, #3)
By: Peter Robinson
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
Violence erupts at an anti-nuclear demonstration in Eastvale, leaving one policeman stabbed to deat… read more
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18. Afternoon of a Good Woman
By: Nina Bawden
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Penelope has always done her best to be a good wife, a good mistress, a good mother, and a good mag… read more
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19. The Sandcastle
By: Philippa Gregory , Iris Murdoch
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Cart… read more
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20. The Debut
By: Anita Brookner
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Since childhood Ruth Weiss has been escaping from life into books, and from the hothouse attentions… read more
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21. Jumping The Queue
By: Mary Wesley
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Matilda Poliport, recently widowed and largely estranged from her four adult children, has decided … read more
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22. Harnessing Peacocks
By: Mary Wesley
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Mary Wesley creates one of the most enchanting heroines of recent literature in this story of indep… read more
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23. The Sleeping Beauty (A Virago Modern Classic)
By: Elizabeth Taylor
3.75
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Vinny Tumulty is a quiet, sensible man. When he goes to stay at a seaside town, his task is to comf… read more
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- british literature
24. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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- fiction
25. The Last Word
By: Elly Griffiths
3.92
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more
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26. 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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- fiction
- british literature
27. The Black Dress
By: Deborah Moggach
3.45
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Pru is on her own. But then, so are plenty of other people. And while the loneliness can be overwhe… read more
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28. Mother's Boy
By: Patrick Gale
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, d… read more
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29. A Woman of My Age
By: Nina Bawden
3.95
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
Elizabeth and Richard, 18 years married, have come to Morocco on holiday. As the adventures and dis… read more
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30. Perfect Happiness
By: Penelope Lively
3.84
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
Perfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively Frances, happil… read more
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"Why should the kindness of strangers be so unnerving?"-Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness
"She stared with sudden suspicion at Frances. "You haven't been weeping, have you? Music can be fatal."-Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness
"How perverse, she thought, that some of the more intense moments of one's life should take place in intimacy with people one does not know."-Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness
"That's the kind of thing that keeps people sane, she thought at rough moments. Constancy. That night will follow day. That the world at least is reliable."-Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness
31. Anna Apparent
By: Nina Bawden
3.80
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
Who is Anna? Is she Anna-May Gates, the war-time evacuee who encounters neglect and unwitting abuse… read more
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