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Performing arts: comedy, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Humour
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- Trade Paperback Apr 14, 2026 | 9781399634229 | RRP $34.99 Pre-Order
- Audiobook Apr 16, 2026 | 9781399634250 | RRP $44.99 Pre-Order
- e-Book Apr 14, 2026 | 9781399634243 | RRP $15.99 Pre-Order
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- Trade Paperback Apr 14, 2026 | 9781399634229 | RRP $34.99 Pre-Order
- Audiobook Apr 16, 2026 | 9781399634250 | RRP $44.99 Pre-Order
- e-Book Apr 14, 2026 | 9781399634243 | RRP $15.99 Pre-Order
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- Trade Paperback Apr 14, 2026 | 9781399634229 | RRP $34.99 Pre-Order
- Audiobook Apr 16, 2026 | 9781399634250 | RRP $44.99 Pre-Order
- e-Book Apr 14, 2026 | 9781399634243 | RRP $15.99 Pre-Order
Maria Semple, author of the runaway bestseller Where'd You go, Bernadette, returns with an uproarious, irresistible heart-tugging story about Adora Hazzard: a divorcee who thinks she has it all figured until a mysterious stranger walks into her life . . .
'I ADORED THIS NOVEL' NINA STIBBE
'LOADED WITH MARIA SEMPLE'S SIGNATURE WIT' BONNIE GARMUS
Adora Hazzard has it all figured out.
A Stoic philosopher and contented divorcee, she relishes her teenage daughter, her job as a moral tutor for an old-money family, and the bliss of finally being solo.
She's also quietly assembling a 'coven' of like-minded single women on the sixth floor of the legendary Ansonia building on New York's Upper West Side. Together, they share groceries, dog walkers - and one dirty little secret: despite their age, they're only just getting started.
Adora's life philosophy is simple: want only what you already have. It's her secret to happiness until a chance encounter with a charming stranger stirs long-buried passions.
Soon, her carefully curated life unravels: black-market art, secret rendezvous, international intrigue and a past she's worked hard to forget crash into her present. Suddenly, Adora finds herself wanting more and she's willing to risk everything to get it.
Go Gentle is a thrilling story of one woman's mid-life transformation, a romance with wit, a page-turner of ideas, a globe-trotting mother-daughter story, all wrapped in a mystery with a socko twist.
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Maria Semple
Maria Semple spent fifteen years in Los Angeles as a television writer, working on hit shows including ELLEN, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, MAD ABOUT YOU and ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. Her second novel, WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, was an international bestseller and was shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction and won the 2013 Melissa Nathan Award. Maria lives in Seattle.
www.mariasemple.com
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