Another good read from Emily Barr with a lot of insight into human suffering and how the experiences that our heroine Tasy has in India make her re-evaluate her life as she learns to know herself. It’s astute and reintroduces us to the girl of her first book, Backpack, some ten years later.
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About The Life You Want
'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown, and no-one's noticed'
'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown, and no-one's noticed'
Ever wished you could just leave it all behind again? Emily Barr's unputdownable new novel is about a mother of two with a seemingly perfect life who's cracking up and longing to get away from it all. But when she finally gets to go away, to India, things are far from what she expects...She has to go away to come home to what she loves again.
Emily Barr worked as a journalist in London but always hankered after a quiet room and a book to write. She went travelling for a year, which gave her an idea for a novel set in the world of backpackers in Asia. This became Backpack, an adult thriller which won the WH Smith New Talent Award, and she has since written eleven more adult novels published in the UK and around the world.
The One Memory of Flora Banks is her first novel for young adults. She lives in Cornwall with her partner and their children.
'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown, and no-one's noticed' Ever wished you could just leave it all behind again? Emily Barr's unputdownable new novel is about a mother of two with a seemingly perfect life who's cracking up and longing to get away from it all.
The Life You Want features in the following genres: Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, Romance / Relationship Stories, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Life You Want was written by Emily Barr and published by Headline Publishing Group
The Life You Want has 404 pages
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