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Jessica Speight, a young anthropology student in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair with her married professor turns her into a single mother. As readers are drawn deeper into Jessica's world, they are confronted with questions of responsibility, potential, even age, all with Margaret Drabble's characteristic intelligence, sympathy, and wit. Told from the point of view of the group of mothers who surround...
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Lucy Lovejoy married her childhood sweetheart at sixteen-years-old, but there is no longer any warmth or love at the centre of Lucy's family: her children have watched their father belittle her for years and are following in his footsteps. With her fortieth birthday approaching, Lucy discovers that her husband is having an affair with her sister and it shatters her. Mustering all her courage, she decides to leave her family and the home she's devoted...
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An epic family saga that charts three generations of an Indian family in Uganda. In 1972, dictator Idi Amin expelled 80,000 South Asians from Uganda. Spanning the years between 1921 and 1975, "Where the Air is Sweet" tells the story of Raju, a young Indian man drawn to Africa by the human impulse to seek a better life, and three generations of his family, who carve a life for themselves in a racially stratified colonial and post-colonial society....
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IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
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"It isn't paranoia if it's really happening... Anna Fox lives alone -- a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble -- and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in...
6) Two sisters
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Ellen, loyal and honest, is her father's favourite, but Georgina is impulsive and unreliable, and can't please a father who has never shown her love. The big house, Grindle Hall, offers them both a chance of betterment, but while Ellen follows the steady path, Georgina takes a darker road and soon, her actions will have fateful consequences for them all. Only Ellen can help them, but will a sister's love be enough?
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The story of a woman who discovers a collection of marbles in her father's belongings. On learning that part of the collection is missing, she embarks on a quest to relocate the missing marbles to complete the collection and also to understand and complete the picture of a man she realises she never fully new. As she uncovers the story of a damaged childhood, she also comes to understand what is missing in herself.
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Finding your way is never a simple journey... Empathetic and highly sensitive, Alice reads other people's moods in a heartbeat -- she sees both the worst and the best in everyone without them having to say a word. But growing up, Alice's gift marks her out as disruptive, an oddity. At their home in Dublin, she and her brothers live in dread of their mother's unpredictable temper, of whether there will be food in the house, or bills paid. And despite...
10) The round house
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
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When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, fourteen-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.
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