Why are the best books written by authors with a gaming history and why did I let my Mum tear me away from the consul back in the 90s! Like Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow, this story of finding endless husbands emerging from your attic, one at a time. like a bottomless husband buffet, uses a gamer's sensibilities to construct a funny, believable yet fantastical story of love and friendship.
'One of the funniest debuts for years' SUNDAY TIMES 'The most fun I've had reading in the longest time' MARIAN KEYES 'An absolute riot' THE UNMUMSY MUM
You wait ages for The One . . . then 203 come along at once
One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence - from photos to electricity bills - suggests he's right.
Lauren's attic, she slowly realises, is creating an endless supply of husbands for her.
There's the one who pretends to play music on her toes. The one who's too…
Write what you know so other people can see themselves in your story and know they're not alone. I don't know if Fiona Williams was thinking this when she wrote this beautifully written, almost almanac-like in it levels of descriptions of the passing year in a village in the west of England. A family of white husband, black mother and mixed-race twins, it isn't afraid to show the reality of being of a different ethnicity in a rural location and how your allies are not what where you expect and neither are your foes. Despite the tragedy at its core, it is a beautiful love story.
Travel to the remote island of Tuga de Ora with Charlotte Walker who, along with us, immerses herself in a completely whole new world and lifestyle on the other side of the globe from her London upbringing. A literary version of those successful fish-out-of-water television shows like Doctor Martin and Death in Paradise, it will take you somewhere most of us have never been to meet a cast of strangers destined to become familiar friends (as there are another two books in this trilogy!)
'Joyous... A modern-day Jane Austen meets The Durrells' ELIZABETH DAY 'One to hoard like a squirrel's nut for the cold, dark days of winter' IRISH TIMES
READERS ADORE WELCOME TO GLORIOUS TUGA
'A glorious escape from reality' 'You can feel the sand and taste the coconut water' 'Full of romance, intrigue and friendships' 'Blue sea; small island; paradise. Sign me up!' 'Deserves to be in everyone's suitcase this summer'
Zoologist Charlotte Walker has taken up a year-long fellowship on the tiny, remote island of Tuga de Oro to study the endangered gold coin tortoises in the jungle interior.
It’s all about sixteen-year-old Asta Fung whose parents have moved the whole family to the next big town along so Grandpa Charlie can be closer to the big hospital. She's had to give up her dog, her friends, her familiar teenage life. All too soon, she has to give up Grandpa Charlie too. What was the point?
But when she comes across a bundle of love letters Grandpa Charlie wrote to his first love - Ela Hennessy – she determines to keep the memory of him alive by finding out who she was and what broke up this 1960s mixed-race relationship.
