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Libby Purves
Book List in Order: 16 titles
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A Long Walk in the Wintertime
- Jan-1997
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Everything seems to be going well for Alice McDonald, who has a successful career, clever children, and an ideal husband. Two months later, it has all fallen apart, and Alice is left wondering if her happiness had been an illlusion....
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A Long Walk in Wintertime
- Sep-1997
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Alice McDonald has escaped all the obvious traps that lie in wait for women. She loves her job but enjoys her clever, spirited children too; her husband (Dan the New Man) does his share at home, and their London house is always full of friends. At he...
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More Lives Than One
- Jun-1999
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Kit Milcourt has been a climber, diver in exotic waters, and affluent young city banker. Now, because of his beloved Anna, he is a teacher. Glumly mediocre Sandmarsh High School is hard put to contain his maverick ideas, and only the soothing presenc...
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Nature's Masterpiece
- Oct-2000
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The family is nature's masterpiece' - George Santayana A compendium of practical advice and reflections on modern family life in the age of computer gaming, ever younger drug and drink problems, educational upheaval and concerns about the way childre...
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Free Woman
- Sep-2001
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Sarah and Maggie are sisters who are very different. Sarah has married and settled contentedly into small-town life. Maggie has spent fifteen years drifting around the world with a backpack. Now Maggie has come home to a dank, dull British winter, su...
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Home Leave
- Jan-2003
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A perceptive novel from our favourite chronicler of the dilemmas of modern family life. Catherine and Caroline, Toby and Mark were globetrotting siblings: British 'diplo-brats', whose childhood homes lay in Italy or Israel, France or Washington DC ?...
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Shadow Child
- Jun-2009
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Writer and broadcaster Libby Purves lost her son in 2006. Her first return to novel writing has resulted in an unrestrained picture of grief that feels at times, uncomfortably intimate ... this is not a book for the fragile (Melissa Katsoulis, Times ...
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Acting Up
The Andersons are a military family with honors and traditions stretching back two hundred years. When the second Iraq war breaks out, it is only natural that their newest generations should be represented in the ranks of British officers. At 24, Lie...
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Continental Drift
Henry is a radio DJ: young hip and single, but fretting about his little son. Philip is an ex-MP, ruined by scandal and disowned by his party; Diana, his long-suffering wife, is struggling to find a life of her own. Marianne is three stone overweight...
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Holy smoke : religion and roots : a personal memoir
'Middle Age' writes Libby Purves 'is a fine high vantage point for looking back. The official passing of another thousand years away from Bethlehem is a stimulus to thinking about Christianity'. In this fascinating and very personal book she does bot...
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Mother Country
Everyone agreed that Shark Grayson wasn’t fit to keep her baby. A heroin addict living in a sordid London squat, she was already close to death when her American lover took charge, carrying off the baby Alexander to give him an affluent future and ...
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Regatta
Sheila Harrison always looks forward to the descent of the summer visitors to her house in Blythney, East Anglia. But she is not prepared for the upheaval caused by one young girl, Anansi, who arrives from a background Sheila can only guess at....