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Little, Brown Book Group Another Mother: 'An absolute belter of a page-turner' HEAT
'An absolute belter of a page-turner' HEAT'Kept me reading late into the night' DAILY MAIL'Clever and compelling. I loved it' JANE SHEMILTRuth's going to risk everything to have her daughter's baby...Ruth Furnival has built the life she always dreamed of: a stellar career in television, a lovely home, a lawyer husband and two grown-up daughters. But at 54, with an empty nest and the menopause behind her, she feels restless and dissatisfied.After multiple rounds of failed IVF, her elder daughter Lauren is told that the only way she and her husband can have a child of their own is through surrogacy. So when Ruth discovers that, with the right dose of hormones, she could carry their baby, they agree out of desperation.At first Ruth is buoyed by a new sense of purpose, but as her pregnancy progresses, long-buried events from the past resurface. Meanwhile Lauren can't contain her corrosive envy. Isolated and alone, Ruth starts to unravel and what began as an act of altruism turns into one of atonement - for which she's willing to risk everything.'A fantastic book club choice...compelling' PRIMA'A gripping read...for fans of Apple Tree Yard' COSMOPOLITAN'Fast-paced and addictively compelling ' RACHEL JOYCE'An absolute "up-all-night" compulsive read' KATE HAMER'A gripping exploration of femininity and motherhood' BEST*Previously published under the title Surrogate in hardback.*
£9.99
Little, Brown Book Group 84 Charing Cross Road
A TRUE STORY THAT HAS TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF THOUSANDS'Unmitigated delight from cover to cover' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A real-life love story . . . A timeless period piece. Do read it' WALL STREET JOURNAL 'Beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with mankind' NEW YORK TIMES This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters, is one that will grab your heart and not let go.
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Little Brown and Company This Bird Has Flown
£19.81
Little, Brown Book Group 84 Charing Cross Road
This book is the very simple story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London'. DAILY TELEGRAPHTold in a series of letters in 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD and then in diary form in the second part THE DUCHESS OF BLOOMSBURY STREET, this true story has touched the hearts of thousands.
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BBC Worldwide Ltd The Virginia Woolf BBC Radio Drama Collection: Seven full-cast dramatisations
The collected BBC radio adaptations of Virginia Woolf’s pioneering modernist novelsThe Voyage OutA sea voyage to South America turns into a journey of self-discovery for naïve Rachel Vinrace.Night and DayIn pre-First World War London, aristocrat Katharine Hilbery and suffragette Mary Datchet have their assumptions about love challenged.Mrs DallowayVirginia Woolf’s masterpiece charts one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, as she prepares to host an important party.To the LighthouseCentring around a summer home on Skye, Virginia Woolf’s landmark tale follows the Ramsay family and their guests before and after World War I.OrlandoThe adventures of time-travelling, gender-swapping poet Orlando, who is born male in Elizabethan England and dies female over 300 years later.The WavesIn this radical ‘play-poem’, six characters look back on their childhood and first forays into adulthood, and reflect on the loss of their friend Percival.Between the ActsAn eccentric artist devises a pageant celebrating English history – but it is 1939, and the shadow of war hangs over England’s present.Among the stars of these seven poignant, penetrating dramatisations are Bertie Carvel, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Dervla Kirwan, John Lynch, Geraldine James, Anna Massey and Don Warrington.
£31.50