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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Sceptre
- Paperback Jan 12, 2016 | 9781444789249 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Apr 1, 2015 | 9781444789829 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 15, 2016 | 9781473634534 | RRP $30.99 Buy Now
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Sceptre
- Paperback Jan 12, 2016 | 9781444789249 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Apr 1, 2015 | 9781444789829 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 15, 2016 | 9781473634534 | RRP $30.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 9, 2015 | 9781444789256 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Jan 12, 2016 | 9781444789249 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Apr 1, 2015 | 9781444789829 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 15, 2016 | 9781473634534 | RRP $30.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 9, 2015 | 9781444789256 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Sceptre
- Paperback Jan 12, 2016 | 9781444789249 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Apr 1, 2015 | 9781444789829 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 15, 2016 | 9781473634534 | RRP $30.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 9, 2015 | 9781444789256 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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From the author of the acclaimed Unexpected Lessons in Love - 'impossible to recommend more highly' Guardian
There's more going on in The Street than its inhabitants realise . . .
In the course of this delightful, quirky and perceptive novel an elderly soldier with incipient Alzheimer's saves the life of a remarkable child, a resting actor finds real purpose, a woman starved of love discovers it in an unexpected place and a beloved cat achieves immortality.
More books by Bernardine Bishop
Praise for The Street
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Lovely, surprising... filled with life and optimism and a wicked sense of comedy... deeply satisfying. - The Times
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Unexpected and exciting - Daily Mail
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Praise for Unexpected Lessons in Love:
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This is one of the most enjoyable books I've read in years. I found it completely gripping. The carefully but unobstrusively structured plot (involving adoption, DNA and paternity) is domestic but with a wide reach; it is played out against a backdrop of world events. On reflection, I have never before read a book which confronts a serious and almost unmentionable illness with such lightness of touch. It's happy and it's cheering, with a beautiful warmth to it, achieved without a moment of sentimentality. I loved it.
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It's impossible to recommend the late Bernardine Bishop's wondrous book too highly - Guardian
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Bishop treats a fearful subject with an extraordinary lightness of touch; her humour and her emotional wisdom make this a delightful and humane novel - The Times
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This novel, wise, sharp and startlingly frank, distils a lifetime of reflection on the rules of attraction, affection - and family life. From confused youth to the ordeals and confusions of old age, her wry insights delight - Independent
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A wonderful novel, one of those rare books which leaves the reader with a deeper understanding of the human heart . . . This is an author of exceptional intelligence, subtlety and warmth. Expect to hear the name Bernardine Bishop when the lists for the Costa and Man Booker prizes are compiled later this year - Spectator
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This novel should appeal to Joanna Trollope fans . . . Bishop is a fine, intelligent writer, capable of handling moral and philosophical themes with a light touch - Sunday Telegraph
Bernardine Bishop
The great-granddaughter of the poet Alice Meynell, Bernardine Bishop was the youngest witness in the Lady Chatterley trial in 1960. After writing two early novels, she taught in a London comprehensive school for ten years and then had a distinguished career as a psychotherapist, during which she brought up her two sons. Cancer forced her retirement in 2010 and she returned to her first love, fiction. Bernardine Bishop lived in London with her husband, until her death in July 2013.
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