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Guppies For Tea

Autor Marika Cobbold
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 feb 2003
A bright, funny novel about a woman's life on the brink of destruction and how she pulls it back together, by the author of Shooting ButterfliesAmelia Lindsey is an exceptional young woman.She shares her days between a grandmother whom she loves, a mother whom she tolerates with patient fortitude, and Gerald. They had fallen in love with Amelia two years earlier, when he was in his artistic phase, and had begged her to move in with him. Now (no longer in his artistic phase) he is showing signs of irritation. And suddenly Selma, the talented and much-beloved grandmother, has become old.As life - and Gerald - begins to collapse all round Amelia, she is determined that the one person who will not fade is Selma. Fighting a one-woman battle against Cherryfield retirement home, Gerald's defection and her mother's obsession with germs, Amelia finds herself capable of plots, diversions, and friendships she has never imagined before.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780747562047
ISBN-10: 0747562040
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:New ed.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

'The touch is light but accurate and telling. Her avoidance of sentiment makes this reader feel that she really cares for her subject' Elizabeth Jane Howard

Notă biografică

Marika Cobbold was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, but has lived in England since the 1970s. GUPPIES FOR TEA is her first novel and was shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award in 1993. Her other novels include A RIVAL CREATION, THE PURVEYOR OF ENCHANTMENT and FROZEN MUSIC.

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Bright, funny novel about a woman's life on the brink of destruction and how she pulls it back together by the author of Shooting Butterflies