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gossip gate by lilliput lanebeautiful piece still in original box and packingin perfect conditionprice includes postage read morelovely collectors or stand alone piece with lots of detail
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The wooden lampstand is painted in hot gossip, wilko emulsion this was a one off upcycled projectpainted wooden lampstand with embellished lampshade
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Stay connected the smart first 6 comes with facebook and twitter already installed – so you can update your status, catch up with the latest gossip and stay in touch with all your friends and family, straight out of the boxso whether you're a fan of games, social media, music or movies, there's an app for everyoneyou're only ever one tap away from making a call, sending a text or email, taking a photo or browsing the websmart but simple designed specifically to be easy to use, the smart first 6 has a simple homescreen with all the features you needaccess to thousands of apps the smart first 6 runs android – the world's most popular operating system – which gives you access to thousands of apps through the google play store
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Hamish macbeth - 10 book set: death of a gossip, death of a cad, death of an outsider, death of a perfect wife, death of a hussy death of a snob death of a prankster, death of a glutton, death of a travelling man and death of a charming man read more
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Sweeping aside the gossip, slander, and distortion that have shrouded the borgias for centuries, g16xcd audiobookthe startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of the tudors and a world undonesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music wells very good conditionmeyer offers an unprecedented portrait of the infamous renaissance family and their storied milieu
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Korloff gossip collection- limited edition- swiss made swiss made quartz movement- eta calibre- 5 jewels diamonds encrusted dial for total weight of 036 carat gvs full cut royal blue cabochon sapphire is adorning the crown mother of pearl dial with diamonds encrusted center- stainless steel applied roman hour markers and hands 35 mm x 8 mm polished stainless steel case - anti reflection and anti scratches sapphire crystal 16 mm x 16 cm stainless steel bracelet water resistant 30 m 3 atm - swiss made the watch is brand new with tag, korloff card and comes in the original luxury box all korloff watch manuals are available in pdf file and are on requestare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithis elegant watch catches the eye thanks to its extremely flat designthe mother of pearl dial features a diamonds encrusted centerplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storelike a final touch, royal blue can be found on the sapphire cabochon adorning the crowncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Yet the dark tide of gossip and innuendo means that zennor is neither a place of recovery nor of escape'helen dunmore mesmerizes you with her magical pen' daily mail 'a beautiful and inspired novel' john le carré 'secrets, unspoken words, lies that have the truth wrapped up in them somewhere make dunmore's stories ripple with menace and suspense' sunday times helen dunmore has published eleven novels with penguin: zennor in darkness, which won the mckitterick prize; burning bright; a spell of winter, which won the orange prize; talking to the dead; your blue-eyed boy; with your crooked heart; the siege, which was shortlisted for the whitbread novel of the year award and for the orange prize for fiction ; mourning ruby; house of orphans; counting the stars and the betrayal, which was longlisted for the man booker prizespring, , and war haunts the cornish coastal village of zennor: ships are being sunk by u-boats, strangers are treated with suspicion, and newspapers are full of spy storiesinto this turmoil come dthey befriend clare coyne, a young artist struggling to console her beloved cousin, john william, who is on leave from the trenches and suffering from shell-shocksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham in her prize-winning first novel, zennor in darkness, helen dunmore reimagines the plight of dh lawrence and his german wife, frieda hoping to escape the war-fever that grips londonshe is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writerlawrence and his german wife hiding out in cornwall during the first world war
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Swiss made quartz movement- eta calibre- 5 jewels limited edition- korloff gossip collection diamonds on bezel and dial for total weight of 1are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithis elegant watch catches the eye thanks to its extremely flat designthe mother of pearl dial features a diamonds encrusted centerit harmoniously contrasts with the diamonds encrusted bezel54 carat gvs full cut royal blue cabochon sapphire is adorning the crown mother of pearl dial with diamonds encrusted center- stainless steel applied roman hour markers and hands 35 mm x 8 mm polished stainless steel case - anti reflection and anti scratches sapphire crystal 16 mm x 16 cm black satin reverse leather strap with stainless steel deployment buckle with korloff logo water resistant 30 m 3 atm - swiss made the watch is brand new with tag and comes in the original korloff luxury box and black korloff card all korloff watch instruction booklets are only available in pdf format on requestplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storelike a final touch, royal blue can be found on the sapphire cabochon adorning the crowncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Format: cd (1 disc); stereorelease date: 7 octoberbaby i'm a star, ptstudio/live: live
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Written by and starring ford kiernan and greg hemphill jack (ford kiernan) and victor (greg hemphill) return for series two of 'still game' with their pals from the craiglang estate including local gossip isa, straight-talking shopkeeper navid, and winston, who is seriously in need of some anger-management sessionsoxfam bookshop carlisle 2 anamorphic discs' 2 discs, inner case and outer case: all ex'still game' shows retirement to be the moment when life truly beginssee oxfam website for delivery information read more9 episodes: 'gairden', 'wummin', 'doacters', 'brief', 'tappin'', 'scran', 'shooglies', 'buntin'' and 'dug
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In the sparkling comedy of manner that follows, jane austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class lifewhen she later discovers that darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend bingley and her beloved sister jane, she s determined to dislike him more than ever*jane austen - pride & prejudice* book in very good condition penguin classics 'vanity, not love, has been my folly' when elizbeth bennet first meets eligible bachelor fitzwilliam darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited, while he struggles to remain indifferent to her good looks and lively mind
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Focus - polydor - featuring sylvia & hocus pocus tracklist hocus pocus focus (instrumental) round goes the gossip love remembered house of the king early birth focus ii carnival fugue janis elspeth of nottingham tommy sylvia condition lp vinyl record - good condition the sleeve - good condition postage to uk only - ÂŁ380 parcel2go the record will be shipped in a defendapak corrugated cardboard mailer for added security read more
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The tearooms of tilling quiver with delicious gossip as she reigns supreme from mallards - formerly the home of mrs benjamin mapp-flint with dear georgie pilson as her consort but lucia's position as the town's premier socialite is in danger for, concerned with her civic dignities 'dear worship' is inclined to forget the subtle nuances and quaint customs of tilling society see oxfam website for delivery information read more for as mayor-elect of tilling it seems she has come to her highest callingoxfam bookshop st albans lucia's loft ambitions are at last to be fulfilled
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'a gossip about his life, works, and characters'/thomas archereach volume individually wrapped in original dark grey postal paper, some strung, addressed, bearing 4x1 penny victoria stamps, franking datedeach volume has 16 pages and 3 tissue-protected black and white photogravure plates of dickens characters, plus title page in volume 1, making 98 pages and 18 plates in allfull-page gravure character sketches by frederick barnardnumerous engravings in text and narration throughout on dicken's life(one volume has some surface markings on front, and some darkening of vellum on others, otherwise all ex cona wonderful opportunity to acquire a piece of english history'folio size "x", each volume has very thick vellum cream cover front and back, illustration of gadshill on front, staple bound, dark red taped spine(click to reveal full phone number)publisher london/cassell & company, [c]
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham in the early 's the village of montaillou & the surrounding mountainous region of southern france was full of hereticswhen jacquest fournier, bishop of pamiers, launched an elaborate inquisition to stamp them out, the peasants & shepherds he interrogated revealed, along with their position on official catholicism, many details of their everyday lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read morebasing his absorbing study on these vivid, carefully recorded statements of peasants who lived more than 600 years ago--pierre clergue, the powerful village priest & shameless womanizer is even heard explaining his techniques of seduction--eminent historian le roy ladurie reconstructs the economy & social structure of the community & probes the most intimate aspects of medieval life: love & marriage, gestures & emotions, conversations & gossip, clans & factions, crime & violence, concepts of time & space, attitudes to the past, animals, magic & folklore, death & beliefs about the other world
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It is bawdy and beautiful; its colourful characters lust and love, gossip and fantasiseread by richard burton' when richard burton breathed the opening words of under milk wood into a microphone, broadcasting history was madethrough the magic of language, under milk wood creates a rich modern pastoral which, once heard, touches the listener with its poetry and haunts the imagination for eversee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop brighton 'to begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-blackfor this 'play for voices' conjures up the intimate dreams and waking lives of the inhabitants of a welsh seaside village in a remarkable waythis radio drama is the completed version broadcast in which includes several passages that were omitted from the first recording in cds
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Oxfam shop dumfries just after ten o'clock on thursday, 7 may nick robinson stared down the lens of camera 5 in the bbc's election night studio to explain to millions the significance of an exit poll that shocked the country and heralded an earthquake in british politicsin the year leading up to that night nick kept a journal recording the events he reported on day after day to millions of viewers and listeners, and which he continued to monitor, often from his hospital bed as he fought to get fit in time for election nightthis is nick's behind-the-scenes account of his encounters with david cameron, who many wrote off before the shock victory he called his 'sweetest'; ed miliband, who turned abuse & ridicule into respect before leading labour to its worst defeat in a generation; nick clegg, who led his party into power and then to humiliation and near oblivion; nigel farage, who rose so fast and then fell at the final hurdle; alex salmond, whose public clash with nick led to thousands protesting outside the bbc's scottish hq, and nicola sturgeon, whose stunning success as snp leader has put scottish independence back on the mapsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe result is an extraordinary narrative, characterized by nick robinson's trademark insight, analysis and backstage gossip, of an adrenaline-fuelled year which culminated in a captivating election that transformed britain's political landscapethat moment was a personal milestone for the bbc's political editor, who had been discharged from hospital just hours earlier following weeks of treatment for cancer and the loss of his voice after surgery
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Trevor-roper was an intellectual heavyweight, but the overall tone here is one of amusement at the human comedy', the vanity, snobbery and human weakness he sees all around himoxfam bookshop shaftesbury when they met in trevor-roper, a young historian at christ church, oxford, was 33berenson, the world-famous art critic, was 82, frail but still intensely curious about the worldsubjects range widely: several brilliant set-pieces on oxford college elections, books, journalism, publishing, politics (postwar europe, ex-nazis and collaborators, the cold war, suez, etc), history and history-writing, personal life (including marriage to earl haig's daughter alexandra after her messy divorce), travel, gossip, and so onfigures in the letters include evelyn waugh, isaiah berlin, a book condition throughout very good: dust jacket complete and unmarked, cloth covers very good and all pages crisp and cleanat the same time he loves intrigue and controversytaylor, arnold toynbee, dimitri shostakovitch, clewis and harold macmillanelegantly constructed, beautifully and precisely written, they are shot through with high-octane malice, sharp judgements and blistering comments, and many wonderfully funny episodessee oxfam website for delivery information read morerowse, anthony eden, gerald brenan, a he has a memorable journey on a pilgrims' bus in persia, goes behind the iron curtain to meet communist dignitaries and speeds in his glamorous grey bentley to visit duchesses in the scottish borderstrevor roper promised to write to him and his letters continued until berenson's death in in
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It's a haven for tourists and locals alike, who all come to eat the freshest local produce on the island and catch up with the gossipkick back and escape with jenny colgan 'a total joy' sophie kinsella 'gorgeous, glorious, uplifting' marian keyes 'irresistible' jill mansell 'just lovely' katie fforde 'naturally funny, warm-hearted' lisa jewell 'a gobble-it-all-up-in-one-sitting kind of book' mike gaylebut he's about to get some shocking news which will change everything for himoxfam shop pershore don't miss jenny's gorgeous new novel - five hundred miles from you is available to pre-order now 'nobody does get-away-from-it-all romance like jenny colgan' sunday express run away to a beautiful scottish beachas cold winter nights shift to long summer days, can flora find her happy-ever-after with joel? why readers adore jenny colgan 'her books are so compelling that you can feel the cool breeze on your face, smell the salty air' 'her descriptions of scenery (and food!) are beautiful' 'i wish her places were real' 'her books are so good i want to start over as soon as i have finished' 'there's something so engaging about her characters and plots' 'her stories are just so fabulous' 'she brings her settings and characters so vividly to life' 'the woman is just magic' see oxfam website for delivery information read moreflora, who runs the cafe, feels safe and content - unless she thinks too hard about her relationship with joel, her gorgeous but emotionally (and physically) distant boyfriendher best friend lorna is pining after the local doctoron the quayside next to the endless beach sits the summer seaside kitchenwhile flora is in turmoil about her relationshipsaif came to the island as a refugee, having lost all of his family
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As gossip spreads through the docks, coffee shops, parlours and brothels, everyone wants to see mr hancock's marvelits arrival spins him out of his ordinary existence and through the doors of high society, where he meets angelica neal, the most desirable woman he has ever laid eyes onthis meeting will steer both their lives onto a dangerous new courseand a courtesan of great accomplishmentoxfam bookshop hertford 'a cracking historical novel - with a twinge of the surreal - about passion and obsession' the timesshorlisted for the women's prize for fiction one september evening in , the merchant jonah hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly on his doorstephe has sold jonah's ship for what appears to be a mermaidwhat will be the cost of their ambitions? and will they be able to escape the legendary destructive power a mermaid is said to possess? see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Over the course of three perilous weeks, the passengers on the lifeboat plot, scheme, gossip and console one another while sitting inches apartfor any to live, some must diecondition: covers and spine very good, pages clean and tightwhen a magnificent ocean liner suffers a mysterious explosion en route to new york city, henry winter manages to secure a place in a lifeboat for his new wife graceedmunds it is and europe is on the brink of waroxfam books & music bury stsee oxfam website for delivery information read moretheir deepest beliefs are tested to the limit as they begin to discover what they will do in order to survivebut the survivors quickly realize the boat is over capacity and could sink at any moment
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Her lifelong correspondence with childhood friend elizabeth bordley gibson records the experiences of the first family, the social and political gossip of the new republic's elite circle, and the difficulties of motherhood and marriagesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music salisbury eleanor parke custis lewis () was in many ways the quintessential southern lady, but as martha washington's granddaughter by her first marriage and george washington's adopted daughter, she was also something of an american celebrity
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A daughter determined to uncover the truthbelle is desperate to find out what happened to the sister she never knew she had - but when she starts asking questions, she is confronted with unsettling rumours, malicious gossip, and outright threatscan she trust her growing feelings for oliver? is her sister really dead? and could there be a chance belle might find her? see oxfam website for delivery information read morebut belle is haunted by a mystery from the past - a 25 year old newspaper clipping found in her parents' belongings after their death, saying that the hattons were leaving rangoon after the disappearance of their baby daughter, elviraoxfam bookshop cheltenham a stolen sisterbelle survives riots, intruders, and bomb attacks - but nothing will stop her in her mission to uncover the truth'i was gripped, moved and utterly in thrall to this deeply emotional and compelling tale' kate furnivallbelle hatton has embarked upon an exciting new life far from home: a glamorous job as a nightclub singer in s burma, with a host of sophisticated new friends and admirersoliver, an attractive, easy-going american journalist, promises to help her, but an anonymous note tells her not to trust those closest to her
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There's nancy, the scalding wit and bestselling novelist; pamela, who craved a quiet country life; diana, the fascist wife of sir oswald mosley; unity, whose obsession with adolf hitler led to personal tragedy; jessica, the runaway communist; and deborah, the socialite who became duchess of devonshirewriting to one another to confide, tease, rage and gossip, the mitford sisters set out, above all, to amusethe letters chronicle the social quirks and political upheavals of the twentieth century but also chart the stormy, enduring relationships between the uniquely gifted - and collectively notorious - mitford sistersoxfam bookshop cheltenham carefree, revelatory and intimate, this selection of unpublished letters between the six legendary mitford sisters, compiled by diana mitford's daughter-in-law, is alive with wit, passion and heartbreaksee oxfam website for delivery information read morea correspondence of this scope is rare; a collection penned by six born storytellers is irreplaceable
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For these are the letters of a great writer, a profound critic, a gossip with the sharpest eyes and tongue in the country, a man who loved and hated ferociously, a keen cook, an angry patriot, and a believer never free of doubtwhen patrick white:a life was published to great acclaim in , marr had several thousand letters in hand; he has located another thousand sincewe should be thankful that they do he was also one of the greatest letter-writers of his timebut patrick white was more than a novelist australian, winner of the nobel prize for literature, author of more than a dozen works of fiction, a handful of plays, and many other books, he was known as a creative writer of power, vehemence and intense imagination edited by david marr at his death in , patrick white had achieved wide fame as a novelistout of this mass he has chosen some 600 of the very best to let white tell the story of his life in his own wordsoxfam shop gloucester patrick white - letters this stunning selection is the result of more than ten years of work and reflection on the part of white's biographer, david marrsee oxfam website for delivery information read more he spent his lie writing letters, huge numbers of them to friends, acquaintances, newspapers, even enemies (of which he had an abundance) shrewd, funny, hauntingly beautiful, dramatic, pig-headed, and above all direct and relaxed, they poured from his pen over a period of seventy years, from childhood until shortly before his death thousands survive so remarkable are the letters that despite his frequent injunction that they be burned, most recipients insisted on saving them
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I want to read more!' miranda dickinson 'warm, witty and laced with intriguing secrets! i want to pull up a bar stool, order a large g&t and soak up all the gossip at the star and sixpence!' cathy bramley ++ a year at the star and sixpence is the collected star and sixpence novellasoxfam shop colne road the perfect escapist read, for all fans of cathy bramley and jenny colgansimply wonderful'a fresh new voice, brings wit and warmth to this charming tale of two sisters' rowan coleman 'you'll fall in love with this fantastic new series from a new star of women's fiction, holly hepburnbut when the sisters' past comes back to haunt them, they start to think that the fresh start they needed is very far away indeed curl up with a year at the star and sixpence - the perfect novel to welcome springif you have already enjoyed the novellas, then you have already enjoyed a year at the star and sixpencea year at the star and sixpence is holly hepburn's four star and sixpence novellas collected together as a novel for the first timefor new novellas from holly, check out her picture house by the sea series and her castle court series ++ see oxfam website for delivery information read more when sisters nessie and sam inherit a little pub in a beautiful country village they jump at the chance to escape their messy lives and start afreshbut when they arrive at the star and sixpence, it's not quite what they imagined - it's pretty much derelict, ruined by debts, and it's going to be a huge job to get it up and running againtheir first year at the star and sixpence won't be easy, though nothing worth doing ever isfilled to the brim with captivating characters and fantastic storylines in a gorgeous settingbut they are determined to make the best of this new life and they set about making the pub the heart of the village once again
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Oxfam shop evesham the park - a place where children play, friends sit and gossip and people walk their dogsbut someone has seen the killer and come forward as a witness - someone who the killer must stop at all costsbut in the shadows, a predator watches, waits - and chooses his first victima gripping psychological thriller introducing geraldine steel, a woman whose past is threatening to collide with her futuresee oxfam website for delivery information read morefor ds geraldine steel, it is a race against time to find the killer as two more bodies are found
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Old gods almost dead, therefore, follows the stones from their beginnings on london's sixties rhythm and blues scene through to their huge pyrotechnic stadium tours of the nineties; from the tortured self-destruction of brian jones to the indestructible 'human riff' that is keith richards, and the tabloid gossip surrounding mick jagger the modern aristocratoxfam shop inverness it is now 17 years since philip norman first published the stonesin , therefore - already more than ten years since bill wyman left the band - it is certainly time for a new bookand what better author than stephen davis, whose hammer of the gods is one of the rock books of all time? now he has written unquestionably the definitive book about the stones' extraordinary 40-year careerhis stones book was never the final wordmeanwhile the stones have never stopped playingit is a saga as raunchily entertaining as the stones themselvessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit is a dark, often eerie portrait, above all, of a band who have consistently attracted danger, and frequently had something bad around them, whether it be the homicidal mayhem of their disastrous altamont concert to the chaotically drug-fuelled recording sessions at keith richards' french chateau that somehow produced their finest album, exile on main streetand above all it is an unparalleled study of a band at work - stitching together deals, making records, putting on dynamic shows even late into their fiftiesbut while his beatles biography is justifiably regarded as definitive, you're either a beatles fan or a stones fan, never quite both
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Along with the borrowed houses come neighbours and friends, gossip and speculation as ria and marilyn swap lives for the summeroxfam bookshop cheltenham ria and marilyn have never met - they live thousands of miles apart, separated by the atlantic ocean: one in a big, warm, victorian house in tara road, dublin, the other in a modern, open-plan house in new englandbut when each needs a place to escape to, a house exchange seems the ideal solutiontwo more unlikely friends would be hard to find: ria's life revolves around her family and friends, while marilyn's reserve is born of griefsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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You don't remember to tell your family that you love them or - in my case - remember to say goodbye to them at allbut what if, like me, you could live your last day over and over again? could you make it perfect? if your whole life flashed before your eyes, would you have no regrets? or are there some things you'd want to change?'this book will take your breath away' she'a beautifully written and outrageously weepy tale' daily mirror see oxfam website for delivery information read more**now a major netflix movie starring zoey deutch, halston sage, logan miller, kian lawley*'gossip girl meets groundhog day' grazia'tender, funny and raw' marie claire'a clever, funny, insightful and utterly addictive novel' daily mail'compelling and poignant, a truly memorable read' closerthey say 'live every day as if it's your last' - but you never actually think it's going to beoxfam bookshop st albans a bestselling summer read as heartbreaking as the lovely bones and as gripping as jenny downham's before i dieat least i didn'tthe thing is, you don't get to know when it happens
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