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A delightfully heartwarming and funny story that proves it's never too late to change the habits of a lifetime, perfect for fans of Judy Leigh, Hazel Prior and Maddie Please.Something old, something new, something stolen...?Gina Knight is looking forward to the prospect of retirement with her husband of forty-three years. Until, to her surprise, said husband decides he needs to 'find himself' - alone - and disappears to Santa Fe, leaving a Dear John letter in his wake.Now Gina needs a new role in life, not to mention somewhere to live, so she applies for the position of Companion to elderly Dorothy Reed. At eighty-nine, 'Dot' needs someone to help her around the house - or at least, her family seems to think so. Her companion's first role would be to accompany Dot for a week-long extravagant wedding party.But when Gina arrives at the large Norfolk estate where the wedding will take place, she quickly discovers Dot has an ulterior motive for hiring her. While the other guests are busy sipping champagne and playing croquet, Dot needs Georgina to help her solve a mystery - about a missing painting, which she believes is hidden somewhere in the house.Because, after all, who would suspect two old ladies of getting up to mischief?Praise for Kate Galley's books: 'An uplifting, positive story... Eat Pray Love for the older generation' Judy Leigh'I thoroughly enjoyed this poignant and heartwarming debut!' Fiona Gibson'I loved this book! I wouldn't have thought it was a debut novel, it was so well-written. I loved the author's style and also the pace of the story', NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'The perfect holiday read! I'll be looking for more books by Kate Galley in the future', NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Wonderful story about friendships, second chances, and what ultimately can make life feel worth living', NetGalley Reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Sad, funny and uplifting. I really think we need a sequel to this one!', NetGalley Reviewer'Wonderfully fluent and evocative writing, complemented this beautifully textured, fast-paced, multi-layered storyline... This story was definitely one of a kind', NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

In the Hamptons, everyday people are as complicated and fascinating as millionaires...When Katie Doyle moves across the country to the Hamptons, she is hoping to find summer employment, new friends for her young son, and a chance to explore a new love affair with George, a dazzling investor. What she finds is a strange cocktail of classes, where society’s one-percenters vacation alongside local, hardworking people who’ve lived in the Hamptons for generations. Though she’s looking forward to her move, Katie is wary about mingling in her boyfriend’s East Coast elite circles. She soon discovers Southampton isn’t all that it seems to be on the surface—and neither are the people who live there.As George takes Katie on a whirlwind tour of country clubs, haute couture, and lavish events, Katie is amazed to witness sudden whims becoming dire needs, extramarital affairs blossoming right and left, and people purchasing friends and loyalties like a pair of shoes. Even the middle-class townspeople maintain determined façades while maneuvering like sharks among the wealthy summer invaders.The more Katie becomes immersed, the more she learns the stories of both the upstairs and downstairs, the upper crust and middle of the road. The combustion between classes becomes explosive as the summer tears on. Betrayals, a sexual predator, and a missing person lost in murky waves drive the reader on a racing Learjet through impossible twists and turns before landing at the shocking conclusion. When Katie meets Luke, a marine biologist and teacher, he makes her realize what it is she really wants, as she understands the life she’s begun for herself is built on shifting Hamptons’ dunes. 

Three years before the Holocaust came the first holocaust, the one that nobody hears about. It stole the lives of thousands of children.In 1930s Germany, before the war, Anna Himmel was Henry Schultz's secret first love and a child-prodigy violinist lauded as the embodiment of German high art and culture. But when the issue of reunification draws a grieving, widowed Henry back to Germany in 1989, decades after his family fled the growing Nazi threat, she is a shell of who she once was. As Anna reluctantly shares her story of trying to save a disabled little girl at Hartheim Castle, a covert Nazi euthanasia site, Henry starts to realize the insidiousness of the evils he left behind-and the consequences of trying to forget.But she cannot bear to give voice to the end of the story. To answer once and for all the question of how normal people slip piecemeal into evil and whether Anna can ever reunify with who she once was, Henry sets out to Hartheim to find the ending himself. What he discovers there will change them both forever.

After losing her husband, Janet Porter's life in the wooded heights of Oregon's Willamette Valley has begun to settle down.Everything changes when her son Nate calls from Iraq with unsettling news. Returning home on a medical discharge, Nate doesn't want the accolades or service medals he's offered; he wants to be left alone.Desperate for help, Janet confides in Andy McNamara: a war veteran who volunteers at the local V.A. clinic.It soon becomes clear that Nate's wounds go far deeper than his torn-up leg. As a freak tornado touches down in the Willamette Valley, they're all thrown into a new world - a world of starting over.

Niamh is at a disappointed juncture when she takes up the offer of a trip to the Ligurian coast, discovering a world of wine, opportunity and friendship.

This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.Ivy is in love with retired doctor Carl Anderson, but Carl doesn't seem to be interested in taking their relationship further.After a visit to a resort and another fight, Carl invites Ivy on a trip with him to Tulsa. When the town is struck by a tornado, their travel plans take a drastic turn.Rerouted to Missouri, Ivy meets a handsome truck driver, Dan, and soon, Ivy and Carl will need to face the problems in their relationship.Can they find happiness together, or have they yet to meet The One?This is the large print edition of Promises, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.¿

From the author of Sit! Stay! Speak! comes a tender, terrific novel complete with long-buried secrets, a three-legged pot belly pig, and an irresistible dog—an unforgettable story about love, friendship, and community. Perfect for fans of Mary Kay Andrews and Mary Alice Monroe.Caroline O’Connor never dreamed she’d be back home in Cold River, Missouri, the Ozark Mountain town where everyone is ‘up your business.’…they mean well as they drive you crazy. She thought she’d left town for good, but now she’s back, helping to care for her New York born mother—struck with Alzheimer’s, and prone to saying and doing anything—and her father, the beloved local doctor frustrated he can’t cure his own wife.As for Caroline, she’s doing ‘just fine’ coping with her parents, her brazen cousin Ava Dawn’s marital disasters, her mostly-deaf dog…and with Noah Cranwell, far-flung relative of a local family mostly infamous for running moonshine, an ex-veteran who’s come to Cold River with troubles of his own. Caroline believes she knows everything about Cold River and the people who live in its hills and hollers … but sometimes life’s greatest surprises happen closest to home.

The New York Times bestselling author of Big Girl Panties puts a modern twist on My Fair Lady in this funny, romantic confection in which a canny young woman makes over her awkward millionaire client . . . with some hot, sexy, and surprising results.Suffocating in a dead-end marriage, Midwesterner Zoey Sullivan fled to New York and moved in with her older sister Ruth, a carefree, vivacious beauty with a string of eligible bachelors at her beck and call. Giving herself three months in the city to clear her head and find a direction, Zoey dodges calls from her ex Derek, and distracts herself by cooking and catering a few private dinners and parties. Pursuing her passion for cooking was never an option when she was with Derek, and now Zoey relishes her independence.When Zoey’s meets reclusive millionaire Tristan Malloy, she’s blown away by his kitchen—a marble and stainless steel temple worthy of the culinary gods—and charmed by his impeccable gentlemanly manners. But despite his firm body, handsome looks, and piles of cash, Tristan—a computer programmer—is shy and more than a little socially awkward. Zoey is sure that Tristan has all the right raw ingredients—and she’s the right person to spice them up turn him into a delectable dish. But Zoey’s unprepared for just how well her makeover works. Tristan turns out to be even sexier once he’s gained a little confidence and the right wardrobe. Beneath the gorgeous package, Tristan is a great guy who deserves a woman who really appreciates him. Slowly but surely, Zoey realizes she may have found her perfect match—but does Tristan even know how her feelings have changed? Is that warm look in his eyes gratitude for the new and exciting world she’s ushered him into, or something more? And what will happen when Zoey’s ex comes to town, looking to win her back?

GOLD MEDAL winner in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards in Literary FictionIn a city teeming with stories, how do lost souls find one another? It’s a question Meg Rhys doesn’t think she’s asking. Meg is a self-identified spinster librarian, satisfied with living with her cat, stacks of books, and her dead sister’s ghost in her New York City apartment. Then she becomes obsessed with an intriguing library patron and the haunted house he’s trying to research. The house has its own story to tell too, of love and war, of racism’s fallout and the ghost story that is gentrification, and of Brooklyn before it was Brooklyn. What follows is an exploration of what home is, how we live with loss, who belongs in the city and to whom the city belongs, and the possibilities and power of love.

**As read on BBC Radio Four**<BR><BR>Uplifting, joyous, hopeful - a novel about late love and second chances, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Paul Torday Memorial Prize<BR><BR>'A moving tribute to friendship and love, to the courage of the ordinary, and to starting again' RACHEL JOYCE, author of Miss Benson's Beetle<BR>'Full of grace and humanity' Sunday Times<BR>________________________<BR><BR>This story begins with a letter<BR>From a housewife<BR>to the gentle curator<BR>Of an extraordinary museum<BR>Where lies peacefully<BR>An ancient exhibit<BR>That holds the key<BR>To Everything<BR>We are.<BR><BR>Meet Me at the Museum tells of a connection made across oceans and against all the odds. Through intimate stories of joy, despair, and discovery, two people are drawn inexorably towards each other, until a shattering revelation pushes their friendship to the very edge.<BR><BR>This deeply affecting debut novel by seventy-three year-old Anne Youngson won the Paul Torday Memorial Prize and was dramatized on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour<BR><BR>*******************************<BR>'Tender, wise and moving, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to cherish.' JOHN BOYNE<BR><BR>'Insightful, emotionally acute and absorbing' DAILY EXPRESS<BR><BR>'Beautiful and affecting' NINA STIBBE<BR><BR>What readers are saying:<BR>'I loved this book. It was so different from anything else I have read'*****<BR>'I just loved this book and read it in one sitting. There were times when I felt like underlining the sentences that resonated with me'*****<BR>'I read this book one letter at a time, just to let the contents sink in. Tears came to my eyes'*****

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'A feelgood read that reminds us it's never too late to live the life you want' SUNOne mum is leaving it all behind for the adventure of a lifetime...Lorraine Anderson was meant to be making a Sunday roast, not swanning off to Thailand, backpack in hand! But when she finds her husband and her best friend in bed together there's only one thing to do - grab her passport and never look back!Now, with each mile travelled Lori sheds the woman she once was and finds the woman she was always meant to be. A woman of passion and spirit who deserves to explore the great unknown...and to indulge in the temptation she encounters along the way!Readers are loving The Backpacking Housewife:'In reading this lovely book we get to step through the screen of our laptop or tablet, right into paradise...wonderful' Mrs Wheddon Reviews'We all dream of just packing up and moving on at some point and this housewife has done just that...fantastic' Amanda, Goodreads'An exciting adventure...definitely a top summer holiday read' Rachel's Random Reads'I absolutely loved this book and I highly recommend you one click it as soon as you can' Linda, Goodreads'A great beach read - or better yet - a great book to read on the plane ride to your next travels' Deah Reads

From a New York Times bestselling author, a single father discovers the true nature of unconditional love after his world his turned upside down.<BR><BR> At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive, and an expansive home in Charlotte. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is at the center of it. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear . . . <BR><BR> In a matter of months, Russ finds himself without a job or a wife, caring for his young daughter while struggling to adapt to a new reality. Throwing himself into the wilderness of single parenting, Russ embarks on a journey at once terrifying and rewarding—one that will test his abilities and his emotional resources beyond anything he's ever imagined. <BR>  <BR> When a chance encounter with an old flame tempts him to take a chance on love again, he navigates this new opportunity with trepidation and wonder. With the loyal support of his parents, the wisdom of his older sister, Marge, and the hard-won lessons of fatherhood, Russ will finally come to understand the true nature of unconditional love—that it is a treasure to be bestowed, not earned.

THE WORLD'S FAVOURITE AUTHOR<BR>ONE BILLION COPIES SOLD<BR><BR>From shattered dreams to lasting love . . .<BR><BR>Every time Samantha went back to the flat, John's words rang through her head :'I can't live with you any more - I've got to get out.' He's been seeing another woman, and now she was promising him the one thing Sam couldn't give: a child. The man she had shared her life with, her love and her laughter, had lied to her.<BR><BR>When the agency gave her four months on a ranch she thought they were crazy. Did they think a holiday would change her? She knew she was wild and untamable, a lone free Palomino - until she met the man who could break any horse on the range and entered a world of endless and enduring love . . .<BR><BR>An epic and romantic tale from one of the best-loved writers of all time. Perfect for fans of Penny Vincenzi, Lucinda Riley and Maeve Binchy<BR><BR>PRAISE FOR DANIELLE STEEL:<BR><BR>'Emotional and gripping . . . I was left in no doubt as to the reasons behind Steel's multi-million sales around the world' DAILY MAIL<BR><BR>'Danielle Steel is undeniably an expert' NEW YORK TIMES