Joanna Cannon
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English
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A story from Joanna Cannon to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love. On holiday with her parents in Yorkshire, Ellis befriends a boy in the next-door cottage and they walk the moors together in a landscape that demands their secrets and offers healing. • Short stories are BACK and this is a collection that enters straight into the zeitgeist conversation of the #MeToo movement – these are stories about the dangers and dynamics...
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English
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Linda has lived in a quiet neighborhood since fleeing the dark events of her childhood in Wales. Now she sits in her kitchen, wondering if this is all there is: pushing the vacuum around and cooking fish sticks for dinner, a far cry from the glamorous lifestyle she sees in the glossy magazines coming through the mail slot addressed to the previous occupant, Rebecca.
Linda's husband Terry isn't perfect - he picks his teeth, tracks dirt through the...
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English
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Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly charming debut about a community in need of absolution and two girls learning what it means to belong.
England, 1976. Mrs. Creasy is missing and the Avenue is alive with whispers. The neighbors blame her sudden disappearance on the heat wave, but ten-year-olds Grace and Tilly aren't convinced. As the summer shimmers endlessly on, the girls decide to take...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A novel set in England about eighty-four-year-old Florence, a resident in a nursing home, who has fallen in her apartment, leading her to think about her childhood friend and the secrets of their past that are about to come to light"--