Fiction - 2003-2006
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DeceptionsWritten by June Considine.What will a woman do when all she has left is her past? Fleeing a broken marriage and a love affair that shook the very foundations of her world, artist Lorraine Cheevers uproots her teenage daughter to make a new home in the small seaside village of Trabawn. But Lorraine soon learns that no-one can outrun the past, or the passionate shadows that lurk beneath the quietest of their lives... |
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FatsoWritten by Lars Ramslie.Fatso is an outrageous, absorbing and moving tale of sex, love and redemption. Rino is fat, ambitionless and a 34-year-old virgin. He is also obsessed with sex. Filled with self-loathing, Rino is resigned to a life of pornography and loneliness until fate steps in to turn his world upside down. When his father decides to let out one of the rooms in his apartment to a liberated young woman named Maria, Rino is flung back into the human stratosphere. What follows is the development of a relationship that is complex, rewarding and brutally human a relationship that forces Rino to live again. |
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Hard to ChoosWritten by Kate Thompson.Whether it's shopping by proxy for Coco de Mer lingerie, being set upon by a gang of goats in a classy country house hotel, wearing ill-advised shoes or sending out all the wrong signals to all the wrong men, hapless Charlotte Cholewcsyk just can't seem to win. Until she finds herself reluctantly winging her way to Paris, where she discovers that it's wickedly hard to choose between love, sex and friendship...no, strike that, and make it fiendishly hard! |
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Marble GardensWritten by Deirdre Purcell.In her powerful new novel, bestseller Deirdre Purcell explores the dramas and dilemmas of a friendship, two marriages and a family. |