I absolutely adored this novel. Mia is a married step mum with a fabulous house and career, and a beautiful 16-year-old cat called Pigeon, whom Mia loves with all her heart. As her marriage and life begin to unravel, Mia clings to her sanity by attending weekly pet bereavement classes, even though Pigeon is alive.
This was very much a novel I needed to read. My 17-year-old cat had just passed away, and I needed to grieve. I didn’t realise that this was the novel that would help me do that until I read this fabulous novel.
Grief doesn’t discriminate, nor does love or joy. I laughed. I cried and I cried some more. I loved this novel.
WHAT IF THE LIFE YOU'RE LIVING ... ISN'T THE ONE YOU WANT?
Mia has made all the right choices. She's married, she has the nice house, the good career. But life isn't about fitting into a box. And there's another woman inside her who's just clawing to get out ...
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'Even speaking as a dog man, I thought Cat Lady was an absolute joy…
This novel is every bit as heartening, joyous, and thought-provoking as I’d hoped it would be. This story about the four O’Shea sisters navigating very different lives after their brother, Daniel’s death, becomes especially poignant when, on the third anniversary of his passing, one sister proposes that they trace the many recipients saved by his donated organs.
Complicated sibling relationships, raw emotions and heartache, I was immediately drawn into the sisters’ imperfect lives and inner turmoils and gripped from the first page of this thoroughly satisfying and believable yarn.
I didn’t want the story to finish because I didn't want to say goodbye to the characters who felt so real to me.
A totally heartbreaking but uplifting story about family, loss and second chances.
Three years after Daniel was killed by a senseless act of violence, all his sisters have left of him are their memories - and responsibility for Daniel's mischievous dachshund John Thomas. Daniel donated his organs, his death facilitating life-saving miracles for other families, while his own loved ones struggle to come to terms with their devastating loss, each at a crossroads of her own.
It's been twelve years since film director Bridie had a hit, and while she's still invited to glitzy media events, nowadays it is as…
Richard E. Grant’s memoir is heartfelt, sincere, and memorable. When his beloved wife Joan Washington died of cancer in 2021 after almost forty years together, she set Richard a challenge: to find a pocketful of happiness in every day. The result is this book.
Set between the present day and flashbacks, this is an immensely personal and profound memoir that celebrates and cherishes life’s unexpected joys. (Okay, the endless name-dropping, whilst entertaining, was a bit jarring.)
Hilarious, tragic and profoundly sad. This one will stay with me. I’m taking Joan’s advice to find a pocketful of happiness every day. A beautiful tribute to a loving partner.
'A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a life spent together. It is an honour to be invited in on these diaries. I cannot remember being so moved by a book' Dolly Alderton
'Fascinating, funny and heart wrenching' Dame Julie Walters
'An emotional rollercoaster - profoundly moving and wonderfully entertaining. A brilliant memoir about living, loving and losing' Bernardine Evaristo
Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor, when he unexpectedly met and fell in love with renowned…
The Pact is about sisters, Samantha and Annie, doubles tennis champions and Olympic gold medallists. Tennis is the vehicle used to amplify the usual sibling issues and also explore the sisters’ professional partnership and personal relationship – similarities, differences, motivation, competition, abandonment, and grief.
How do the siblings respond to the stress of constantly being under the media spotlight? What happens when, at the pinnacle of fame, their relationship falls apart? With dreams shattered and egos destroyed, how do they cope?
I had a lot of fun writing this story and hope it resonates with readers, even if they don’t play tennis or know much about the game!
