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  • The Twin
    Amanda Brookfield
    A heartfelt, emotional book club pick from Amanda BrookfieldA splintered childhood. A family divided. An ugly past resurfaces...From birth, twins Cath and Rob are inseparable. When their mother dies, their bond deepens as their father hastily remarries a woman with a volatile temper whose sole focus is her own baby - Oliver - who arrives nine months later.When, aged 48, Rob t...
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  • The Twin
    Amanda Brookfield
    A heartfelt, emotional book club pick from Amanda BrookfieldA splintered childhood. A family divided. An ugly past resurfaces...From birth, twins Cath and Rob are inseparable. When their mother dies, their bond deepens as their father hastily remarries a woman with a volatile temper whose sole focus is her own baby - Oliver - who arrives nine months later.When, aged 48, Rob t...
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    36,21 €

  • Sisters and Husbands
    Amanda Brookfield
    ’No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield.’ The MirrorEver since the death of their father twenty years before, beautiful thirty-two-year-old Anna has acted as her younger sister Becky’s support, playing the peace-maker in her stormy relationship with their mother, and counselling her through the traumas of a life that has always appea...
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    35,05 €

  • Life Begins
    Amanda Brookfield
    If ’Life Begins at Forty’, then Charlotte Turner’s not off to the best of starts.On top of a recent divorce, and trouble with her twelve-year-old son, the husband of her closest friend has just started to show a bit too much interest in her as a newly-single woman.But only when Charlotte has faced up to some uncomfortable truths about her past can she finally shed the unhappy s...
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    34,81 €

  • Sisters and Husbands
    Amanda Brookfield
    ’No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield.’ The MirrorEver since the death of their father twenty years before, beautiful thirty-two-year-old Anna has acted as her younger sister Becky’s support, playing the peace-maker in her stormy relationship with their mother, and counselling her through the traumas of a life that has always appea...
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    15,08 €

  • Life Begins
    Amanda Brookfield
    If ’Life Begins at Forty’, then Charlotte Turner’s not off to the best of starts.On top of a recent divorce, and trouble with her twelve-year-old son, the husband of her closest friend has just started to show a bit too much interest in her as a newly-single woman.But only when Charlotte has faced up to some uncomfortable truths about her past can she finally shed the unhappy s...
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    15,84 €

  • The Love Child
    Amanda Brookfield
    When Janine and Dougie fell in love they thought it would be for ever.Fifteen years later their relationship is well and truly over, their daughter Stevie their one remaining connection.Stevie is on the cusp of adulthood. At sixteen, she’s not quite a child, but not quite grown up: a dangerous age. But it’s only during a birthday celebration in Spain, when she gets too close to...
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    34,35 €

  • The Love Child
    Amanda Brookfield
    When Janine and Dougie fell in love they thought it would be for ever.Fifteen years later their relationship is well and truly over, their daughter Stevie their one remaining connection.Stevie is on the cusp of adulthood. At sixteen, she’s not quite a child, but not quite grown up: a dangerous age. But it’s only during a birthday celebration in Spain, when she gets too close to...
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    15,59 €

  • Before I Knew You
    Amanda Brookfield
    Would you swap houses with a family of strangers? The price you pay might be greater than you think...Sophie and Andrew are looking for relief from the daily grind - if not each other - so when a friend puts them in touch with William and Beth, newlyweds looking to swap houses for the summer, it sounds like a great idea.They find themselves in a stylish Connecticut home, while ...
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    34,90 €

  • Before I Knew You
    Amanda Brookfield
    Would you swap houses with a family of strangers? The price you pay might be greater than you think...Sophie and Andrew are looking for relief from the daily grind - if not each other - so when a friend puts them in touch with William and Beth, newlyweds looking to swap houses for the summer, it sounds like a great idea.They find themselves in a stylish Connecticut home, while ...
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    15,08 €

  • The Simple Rules of Love
    Amanda Brookfield
    For some families, a year can feel like a lifetime.The Harrisons were always a close-knit family.But with the grandchildren fast becoming adults and elderly Pamela struggling to adapt to widowhood, the four children of the middle generation find themselves equally lost in a changing world.As preparations for 42-year-old Cassie’s long-awaited wedding gather pace, sibling and mar...
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    17,71 €

  • The Simple Rules of Love
    Amanda Brookfield
    For some families, a year can feel like a lifetime.The Harrisons were always a close-knit family.But with the grandchildren fast becoming adults and elderly Pamela struggling to adapt to widowhood, the four children of the middle generation find themselves equally lost in a changing world.As preparations for 42-year-old Cassie’s long-awaited wedding gather pace, sibling and mar...
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    33,33 €

  • The Wrong Man
    Amanda Brookfield
    ’In the weeks that followed, Jane did her best not to think about anything very much. Usually, it worked. But every so often she would freeze, and tremble at the terrifying realisation that she wanted to leave her husband.’While many regard her marriage with admiration and a touch of envy, Jane Lytton quietly reaches the shocking conclusion that her relationship with Michael, a...
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    15,19 €

  • The Wrong Man
    Amanda Brookfield
    ’In the weeks that followed, Jane did her best not to think about anything very much. Usually, it worked. But every so often she would freeze, and tremble at the terrifying realisation that she wanted to leave her husband.’While many regard her marriage with admiration and a touch of envy, Jane Lytton quietly reaches the shocking conclusion that her relationship with Michael, a...
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    35,17 €

  • The Godmother
    Amanda Brookfield
    ’Stop trying to be brave all the time, Rachel. Fear is a necessary part of being alive. Sometimes we have to let it show. We have to own up to it or it drives us mad.’Rachel Elliot is single and attractive, a director of a successful advertising agency, with a handsome lover, close friends, and a clutch of beloved godchildren. But as her fortieth birthday approaches, so does a ...
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    15,32 €

  • The Godmother
    Amanda Brookfield
    ’Stop trying to be brave all the time, Rachel. Fear is a necessary part of being alive. Sometimes we have to let it show. We have to own up to it or it drives us mad.’Rachel Elliot is single and attractive, a director of a successful advertising agency, with a handsome lover, close friends, and a clutch of beloved godchildren. But as her fortieth birthday approaches, so does a ...
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    33,08 €

  • Alice Alone
    Amanda Brookfield
    On the day that her youngest child leaves home, Alice Hatton discovers two disturbing truths in a matter of hours.The Empty Nest cliche is true.And she does not love her husband Peter at all. Now in her fifties, Alice is appalled to realise that she is no longer considered her own person, but is instead defined by her relationships - mother to her adult children, wife to her hu...
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    33,58 €

  • Alice Alone
    Amanda Brookfield
    On the day that her youngest child leaves home, Alice Hatton discovers two disturbing truths in a matter of hours.The Empty Nest cliche is true.And she does not love her husband Peter at all. Now in her fifties, Alice is appalled to realise that she is no longer considered her own person, but is instead defined by her relationships - mother to her adult children, wife to her hu...
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    15,69 €

  • The Split
    Amanda Brookfield
    Two decades on from a passionate courtship and marriage, Lucas and Esther are getting divorced. For Esther, it’s proving hard not to feel bitter watching Lucas enjoying his successful career, not to mention the attentions of his gorgeous, intelligent, and predictably younger lover. She meanwhile is struggling to forge a new life for herself, navigating the pitfalls of modern da...
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    15,06 €

  • The Split
    Amanda Brookfield
    Two decades on from a passionate courtship and marriage, Lucas and Esther are getting divorced. For Esther, it’s proving hard not to feel bitter watching Lucas enjoying his successful career, not to mention the attentions of his gorgeous, intelligent, and predictably younger lover. She meanwhile is struggling to forge a new life for herself, navigating the pitfalls of modern da...
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    32,25 €

  • Good Girls
    Amanda Brookfield
    *Shortlisted for The People’s Book Prize*’No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield.’ The MirrorWho can you trust with your darkest secrets...Everyone that meets Kat Keating is mesmerised. Beautiful, smart and charming, she is everything a good girl should be.Her sister Eleanor, on the other hand, knows she can’t compete with Kat. On th...
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    32,05 €

  • The Lover
    Amanda Brookfield
    It takes courage to follow your heartAfter twenty years of contentedly playing the role of home-maker and mother, Frances Copeland’s life is shattered by the sudden death of her husband. With no career to fall back on and her son and daughter leaving home, the solitude of bereavement hits particularly hard.When new love beckons, in the form of a handsome young man fifteen years...
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    14,49 €

  • The Lover
    Amanda Brookfield
    It takes courage to follow your heartAfter twenty years of contentedly playing the role of home-maker and mother, Frances Copeland’s life is shattered by the sudden death of her husband. With no career to fall back on and her son and daughter leaving home, the solitude of bereavement hits particularly hard.When new love beckons, in the form of a handsome young man fifteen years...
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    33,22 €

  • A Family Man
    Amanda Brookfield
    ’The novel walks a line between comedy and wrenching sadness. It is fluently written and its depiction of domestic chaos ... is all too recognisable’ Sunday TimesA Family Man tells the story of thirty one year old Matt Webster, who arrives home from work one day to find that his wife, Kath, has walked out, leaving him to care for their four year old son.Shock and hurt are compo...
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    32,98 €

  • A Family Man
    Amanda Brookfield
    ’The novel walks a line between comedy and wrenching sadness. It is fluently written and its depiction of domestic chaos ... is all too recognisable’ Sunday TimesA Family Man tells the story of thirty one year old Matt Webster, who arrives home from work one day to find that his wife, Kath, has walked out, leaving him to care for their four year old son.Shock and hurt are compo...
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    14,34 €

  • Relative Love
    Amanda Brookfield
    The Harrison family gathers as usual for Christmas in their big Sussex house.This year, however, outside realities are pressing hard: Pamela and John, married for four decades, know that time is catching up with them. And trouble is brewing in the lives of their four children.Cassie, the cossetted youngest, is in the throes of an affair with a married man; Elizabeth, her awkwar...
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    31,08 €

  • Relative Love
    Amanda Brookfield
    ’This book, about deep and complex family love from this accomplished author, is told with true passion’ Family CircleRelative Love is a heart-rending story of loss and love, covering one year in the lives of the Harrison family, a sprawling clan doing their best to hold together in the face of a changing world. The story opens as the Harrisons gather for Christmas at their big...
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    17,70 €

  • The Other Woman
    Amanda Brookfield
    ’No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield.’ The MirrorOn a normal day, in a normal house, on a normal street, wife and mother Fran has had enough. She packs a case, leaves a note for her bullying husband Pete, and one for her beloved twenty-year-old son Harry, and heads to the airport - and freedom.In another house, on another street, ...
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    16,07 €

  • The Other Woman
    Amanda Brookfield
    ’No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield.’ The MirrorOn a normal day, in a normal house, on a normal street, wife and mother Fran has had enough. She packs a case, leaves a note for her bullying husband Pete, and one for her beloved twenty-year-old son Harry, and heads to the airport - and freedom.In another house, on another street, ...
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    34,63 €

  • Good Girls
    Amanda Brookfield
    'No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield.' The Mirror Good Girls never tell tales... Everyone that meets Kat Keating is mesmerised. Beautiful, smart and charming, she is everything a good girl should be.Her sister Eleanor, on the other hand, knows she can't compete with Kat. On the awkward side of tall, clever enough to be...
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    15,85 €