**As read on BBC Radio Four**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'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'Full of grace and humanity' Sunday Times________________________This story begins with a letterFrom a housewifeto the gentle curatorOf an extraordinary museumWhere lies peacefullyAn ancient exhibitThat holds the keyTo EverythingWe are.
A highly original, piercingly beautiful work, full of beautiful shocks I felt like a door had been kicked open in my brain Johanna Thomas-Corr, ObserverA woman searches Buenos Aires for the paintings that are her inspiration and her refuge.
'An electrifying plot that keeps you guessing to the last' Fiona Barton'Yet another gripping, heartbreaking read from a brilliant writer' Jill Mansell'Thrilling, compelling, clever and hugely entertaining.
THE MUST-READ SUMMER 2020 RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'If you wished Normal People had tackled female friendship, try Expectation' GRAZIA'Profoundly intelligent and humane.
BBC RADIO 4 'BOOK AT BEDTIME' PICK Those who love Little Fires Everywhere and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine will love this My WeeklyMolly has lived on the streets for nearly a decade.
Winner of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award'You have to truly love people to write like this' RACHEL JOYCE'One of the greatest novels of this century' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT'Gorgeously wrought' GUARDIANIn 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.
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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2015 Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Irish Novel of the Year 2015Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell.
From the prizewinning author of God's Own Country and A Natural comes a moving and intimate exploration of marriage, devotion and sacrifice, and a woman's enduring search for freedom.
It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time spent as a lab assistant to the great physicist Henry Maartens; about Maartens' beautiful wife, Katy, and about a love affair which shook Rivers to the core and caused him to question everything he once revered.
The comforts and terrors of middle-class provincial life have seldom been more sharply dissected than by Stanley Middleton, and his new novel adds to this social insight a new poignancy.
She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed Anita Brookner Hugo Potts is a successful London playwright enjoying his moment of notoriety.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITALIn the middle of a winter s night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket, picks up a pen and starts writing to an estranged friend.
From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, - soon to be a major movie starring Jim Broadbent - an exquisite, funny and heartrending parallel story.
Bold, bewildering, and utterly unique, Finnegans Wake is James Joyce's final and most daring work, an experimental tour de force that redefined the possibilities of language, narrative, and meaning.
This collection presents two of Virginia Woolf's most profound and innovative works, The Years and The Waves, showcasing her mastery of narrative form and deep exploration of human experience.
Using Woolf's famous modernist method, the reader follows the narrative of an unknown female travelling on a train from London to the South Coast of England.