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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Thatcherite Britain is not a particularly advantageous time to be born. The latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives, Janie Ryan is just a few days old when a blazing row lands her mother in a local women's shelter. From there it's on to a dodgy council flat and a succession of unsuitable men, including the hard-drinking, drug-dealing, ice-cream-buying Tony Hogan. Narrated by Janie from her less than idyllic birth, Tony Hogan bought me an ice-cream...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The story of three half-sisters sired by the same man with three different women and how they come to meet. He was a British diplomat and they are Genevra of India, Lian of China and Ailsa of Scotland.
Musician Eva Crawford looks to the wisdom of her ancestors when trying to decide whether to accept the marriage proposal of Rory, the only man she has ever loved.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 6
Publisher
Anchor Books/Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The story of Bertie and his family continues in this sixth installment alongside the familiar cast of favorites--Big Lou, Domenica, Angus Lordie, Cyril and others--in their daily pursuit of a little happiness.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A darkly humorous modern classic about a doomed adolescent girl, featuring a new introduction by Maggie O'Farrell, award-winning author of Hamnet. Janet lies murdered beneath the castle stairs, attired in her mother's black lace wedding dress, lamented only by her pet jackdaw... So begins O Caledonia, with the body of sixteen-year-old Janet sprawled beneath the stained-glass window of her Scottish Highlands home. The only mourner is her pet bird,...
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 8
Language
English
Description
"Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the century of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on their honeymoon, Edinburgh is in disarray. While recovering from the trauma of being best man, Matthew is taken up by a Dane called Bo. Cyril eludes his dog-sitter and embarks on an odyssey involving fox holes and the official residence of a cardinal. Narcissist Bruce meets his match in the form of a sinister doppelganger. Bertie,...
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