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Family Drama
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The Monsters of Templeton
Lauren Groff
July 2009 Debut of the Month.
We have a monster in the lake, we have the supernatural but this book is in essence a rattling good family saga, a tale of small-town America...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
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The Shop on Blossom Street
Debbie Macomber
Lydia Hoffman owns a woollen shop and decides to start a knitting class for beginners. The first class, How to knit a baby blanket” brings four women together, all with very different reasons for being in the group, and as...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/08/2006
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Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story
Carolyn Turgeon
Cinderella’s fairy godmother has been exiled on earth for 300 years for failing at her task back in the old story. She works in a book store, a lonely sad woman desperate to return to her world … and the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/07/2009
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The Behaviour of Moths
Poppy Adams
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize, a sad, haunting tale of sister rivalry, of the invasion of privacy, of resentment, of reclusive behaviour, secrets and lies as elderly sisters live together again after forty-seven years apart. The details on...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/06/2009
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No One You Know
Michelle Richmond
June 2009 Debut of the Month.
The devastating effect on a close family when their genius daughter is murdered. The younger, carefree sister narrates this tragic tale 14 years after the event when she is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2009
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Mr Toppit
Charles Elton
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 3 June 2009.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 26 February 2009.
Fantastic characterisation and plotlines make this an unputdownable
read. A brilliant satire on celebrity culture, thoroughly recommended.
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2009
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Past Imperfect
Julian Fellowes
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 13 May 2009.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 29 January 2009.
Rich Damian Baxter is dying without an heir when an unsigned letter arrives inferring he had a son thirty...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2009
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The Hungry Ghosts
Anne Berry
June 2009 Debut of the Month.
A superb novel from a great new talent. The story unfolds told from the different perspectives of each family member and from Alice’s “Ghost”. Unloved by her mother and...
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/05/2009
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American Wife
Curtis Sittenfeld
This is an absolute joy to read. It follows the life of an ordinary American girl, with a teenage tragedy hanging over her, who falls for an ambitious, rich and privileged boy whose sights are on the White House. It...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
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Betrayal
Sasha Blake
Greed, vengeance, lust and, of course, betrayal all rear their ugly heads in this fabulous tale of the Kent dynasty. The billionaire family are caught up in disgrace and scandal, no one is satisfied with their lot and no one...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/07/2009
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Heart and Soul
Maeve Binchy
The brand new novel from Maeve Binchy is another tale of family and relationship dramas. The story centres round Clara Casey, who is finding her two grown daughters more of a handful now than when they were teenagers. Not only...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/07/2009
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Over You
Lucy Diamond
Lucy Diamond is definitely one to watch. This is her second novel and is as witty and observant as her previous novel, Any Way You Want Me. When Josie and two of her oldest friends meet up for a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2008
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Palace Circle
Rebecca Dean
From 1911-1941, a saga of the aristocratic and political circles of London and Cairo spotted with real historical characters bound round an interesting fictional family. I loved it. Infidelities, spying, high society and a multi-voiced narrative sweep you dramatically through...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/05/2009
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The Italian Wedding
Nicky Pellegrino
A lovely book about two feuding families, a wedding and blossoming love that needs a helping hand. This is the perfect book to give you that feel-good, warm glow that comes with reading a good romantic novel. We can see...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/06/2009
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There’s nothing like a really involving family drama and romance to take you away from your own life. And Lovereading covers the whole range, as you would expect.
You can watch the lives of glamorous dynasties with dark secrets in the totally involving novels from Barbara Taylor Bradford… Empathise with women juggling careers and families in Allison Pearson’s bestsellers… Enjoy the light touch of Charlotte Bingham and the passion of Jojo Moyes…
Relax into the warm, wise stories of Elizabeth Buchan and Adriana Trigiani…Share the intelligent insights of Kate Atkinson, Joanna Harris and Maggie O’Farrell… Get new slants on universal problems from Erica James and Elizabeth Noble… Dive into huge-scale family adventures with Nicholas Evans and Sidney Sheldon…
Then there are Sally Beauman’s sexily exciting stories, Anita Shreve’s emotional tales, Alice Hoffman’s magical fables, Meera Syal’s witty accounts of multi-cultural Britain… And we’re only touching the tip of the iceberg! All our Family Drama novels are available to order online at discounted prices.
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A selection of authors who will feature in this Lovereading category include:
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The Best of Times
Penny Vincenzi
A split second in time can change so many lives. A car crash sets the scene for the fantastic new Penny Vincenzi novel with fate changing the course of the...
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Vision in White
Nora Roberts
The first of a new quartet from Nora Roberts (the Bride Quartet). Four female friends have formed a successful wedding planning business but, unfortunately, their own love lives do not...
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A Good Yarn
Debbie Macomber
Lydia’s popular knitting classes bring together another group of women who are all coping with the knocks life brings along and finding that friendship is a wonderful thing for helping...
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Restoring Grace
Katie Fforde
This is Katie’s tenth novel, I think she is wonderful. Good, old-fashioned storytelling, warm-hearted, addictive and very satisfying. She started writing when that awful phrase ‘aga saga’ became prevalent and...
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A Small Part of Me
Noelle Harrison
Once you have started this book, you will need to find out what happens as you quickly get involved with the characters within it. The story is told through three...
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An Absolute Scandal
Penny Vincenzi
Shortlisted for the Popular Fiction Award at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2008.Set in the 80’s this novel revolves around the events of the Lloyds scandal of that...
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This Year It Will Be Different
Maeve Binchy
A collection of short stories relating to Christmas which would make a good stocking filler for someone who hasn’t really read Maeve Binchy before. If you are a fan you...
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A Season of Leaves
Catherine Law
October 2008 Debut of the Month.
This is a lovely debut novel, truly romantic and irresistible once you have started it . Be prepared to...
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River Run Deep
Rachael Treasure
November 2008 Book of the Month.
A big, sweeping drama of a plucky girl making her mark in the male dominated outback of...
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Billie Jo
Kimberley Chambers
March 2009 Debut of the Month.
This will certainly appeal to fans of Martina Cole and June Hampson. Billie Jo’s father has been...
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The Supper Club
Sophie King
Revolving around a number of dinner parties held by a group of friends and acquaintances this novel follows the lives of the characters at and away from their supper club....
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The Wedding Party
Sophie King
A multi-voiced novel with each chapter written from the point of view of the various main characters as the months before a wedding are fraught with personal problems. It’s a...
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Crossed Wires
Rosy Thornton
When Peter phones his car insurance company to report an accident he gets put through to Mina and there starts a delightful, old fashioned love story. We follow their separate...
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Broken
Daniel Clay
April 2009 Debut of the Month.
It is always difficult to write about a book you’ve so enjoyed without going over the top with superlatives,...
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Dearest Rivals
Jane Elizabeth Varley
When you pick up this author you know you are in safe hands, she never seems to let you down. Her insight into families and how they function pulls at...
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The Northern Clemency
Philip Hensher
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008
A tale of two families living in Sheffield from the 1970's through to the 90's. The book wonderfully evokes the style and sentiments of...
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311 Pelican Court
Debbie Macomber
The third in the Cedar Cove series brings familiar characters back together. These books make you feel like you are re-visiting an old friend. For such a sleepy sounding town...
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The Lollipop Shoes
Joanne Harris
The much anticipated sequel to Chocolat,
The Lollipop Shoes is set 5 years after we left Vianne and her daughter
Anouk. Vianne now has another daughter and the three of them...
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I Remember
Noelle Harrison
A gripping story from start to finish as we follow the young Barbara on her journey from rural Ireland to travelling to France with the Finch family as their au...
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