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From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime

''A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it. For as long as I could make it last, the world just felt a bit nicer'' Meg Mason

''Stibbe turns out more perfect, sharp, unique sentences than anyone else'' Caitlin Moran

''Stibbe has an extraordinary gift'' Marian Keyes

''Nina Stibbe makes being funny look easy, but that''s just because she''s very, very good at it'' Clare Chambers
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Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else). But now, thirty years later, faced with a husband seeking immortality and No

One Day I Shall Astonish the World

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 4/21/2022
      ISBN-13 9780241451168
      978-0241451168
      ISBN-10 241451167
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime

      ''A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it. For as long as I could make it last, the world just felt a bit nicer'' Meg Mason

      ''Stibbe turns out more perfect, sharp, unique sentences than anyone else'' Caitlin Moran

      ''Stibbe has an extraordinary gift'' Marian Keyes

      ''Nina Stibbe makes being funny look easy, but that''s just because she''s very, very good at it'' Clare Chambers
      ________________________________________________

      Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else). But now, thirty years later, faced with a husband seeking immortality and No

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