The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe

The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 247
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ISBN-10 : 9781035028481
ISBN-13 : 1035028484
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe by : Claire Parkin

'Beautifully written, dark, twisted and often funny' Charlotte Levin 'Dark and twisted, comic and toxic. I loved it!' Jenny Colgan 'Shocking and compelling. I raced through it. Fabulous' Daily Mail Ruth and Muriel are best friends. And often, worst enemies. Inseparable since they were little, Ruth and Muriel have shared everything. Now, fate has left them living together in a North London home, with Ruth caring for Muriel in her deteriorating health, playing Scrabble, arguing and making up, passing the days in monotony. Until one afternoon, when Muriel makes an unexpected and sinister announcement: ‘In exactly seventy-two hours, I am going to die’. The end might be in sight for Muriel, but that’s just the beginning of this story about two old friends who have seventy-two years of history – and more than one shocking secret – between them... A darkly comic novel about two old friends, a lifelong (toxic) friendship, and the very fine line between love and hate. Perfect for fans of Joanna Cannon, Charlotte Levin and Jennie Godfrey.

The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe M. B. E

The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe M. B. E
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9781035028450
ISBN-13 : 103502845X
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe M. B. E by : Claire Parkin

The darkly comic debut novel from Claire Parkin. A tale of toxic friends, lost love and deep seething resentment. For all the fans of Joanna Canon and Gail Honeyman.

The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : 9780811221047
ISBN-13 : 0811221040
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic) by : Muriel Spark

"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."

The Last of Her Kind

The Last of Her Kind
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 398
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ISBN-10 : 9781429944977
ISBN-13 : 1429944978
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Last of Her Kind by : Sigrid Nunez

The paths of two women from different walks of life intersect amid counterculture of the 1960s in this haunting and provocative novel from the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend Named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Christian Science Monitor Sigrid Nunez's The Last of Her Kind introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Columbia campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate, Ann Drayton, and her obsessive disdain for the ruling class into which she was born. She is mortified by Ann's romanticization of the underprivileged class, which Georgette herself is hoping college will enable her to escape. After the violent fight that ends their friendship, Georgette wants only to forget Ann and to turn her attention to the troubled runaway kid sister who has reappeared after years on the road. Then, in 1976, Ann is convicted of murder. At first, Ann's fate appears to be the inevitable outcome of her belief in the moral imperative to "make justice" in a world where "there are no innocent white people." But, searching for answers to the riddle of this friend of her youth, Georgette finds more complicated and mysterious forces at work. The novel's narrator Georgette illuminates the terrifying life of this difficult, doomed woman, and in the process discovers how much their early encounter has determined her own path, and why, decades later, as she tells us, "I have never stopped thinking about her."

Memoirs

Memoirs
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B3714328
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Memoirs by : Hezekiah Oladipo Olagunju Davies

Where You Once Belonged

Where You Once Belonged
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 181
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307807854
ISBN-13 : 0307807851
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Where You Once Belonged by : Kent Haruf

In Where You Once Belonged, the bestselling and award-winning novelist of Eventide, Kent Haruf tells of a small-town hero who is dealt an enviable hand--and cheats with all of the cards. Deftly plotted, defiantly honest, Where You Once Belonged sings the song of a wounded prairie community in a narrative with the earmarks of a modern American classic. In prose as lean and supple as a spring switch, Haruf describes a high school football star who wins the heart of the loveliest girl in the county and the admiration of men twice his age. Fun-loving, independent, Burdette engages in the occasional prank. But when he turns into a man, his high jinks turn into crimes--with unspeakable consequences. Now, eight years later, Burdette has returned to commit his greatest trespass of all. And the people of Holt may not be able to stop him.