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Penelope’s 2025 Year in Books
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Penelope Swithinbank
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January 2009
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Book Launch
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"Walking Back to Happiness" will be launched in Bath Abbey on Wednesday November 13th 2019 at 1pm. There will be chocolates; a short talk and reading; a book signing; and general celebrations to greet this new book!
Or - come to a book signing in London!
Friday November 29th 2019 all day (11am - 9pm. Just drop in any time) at St Michael's Church Christmas Fair.
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"Walking Back to Happiness" will be launched in Bath Abbey on Wednesday November 13th 2019 at 1pm. There will be chocolates; a short talk and reading; a book signing; and general celebrations to greet this new book!
Or - come to a book signing in London!
Friday November 29th 2019 all day (11am - 9pm. Just drop in any time) at St Michael's Church Christmas Fair.
71 Wimbledon Park Road Read more of this blog post »
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I tried and tried. Started this three times and the third time persevered to about half way. But then decided life is just too short .... I found this very introverted without being a good stream of consciousness. There was far too much sex and sweari ...more |
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Cleopatra. Who could not fail to be mesmerised by the woman, the legend, the beauty, the lover! So I entered the book with high expectations, and to begin with was not disappointed. Then came the lengthy, and for me, heavy middle part of the book. Th ...more |
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| A story of a cross cultural marriage, post-natal depression, miscarriage of another baby, and of growing up in a dysfunctional family and trying to understand why one is as one is. Narrated sometimes in the first person, sometimes in the third, it is ...more | |
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| A short novel, with lines and lines of conversation, some of which follow on so closely and for so long, that sometimes it's difficult to work out who is speaking, yet which holds the attention as one wonders whether the Festival for The Broken-Heart ...more | |
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| What a darkly funny book! I had been fascinated by the book's description, but had no idea really what to expect. And for the first few pages, I kept thinking it wasn't worth continuing. Wasn't this just going to be another rom-com beach read? But th ...more | |
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| The Homemade God had me gripped from the start - maybe because I was reading it on holiday in Italy? Very different to some of the author's previous novels, this one revolves around the family of a rather bohemian artist , Vic, (Jack Vettriano's work ...more | |
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| Set in a London theatre in the early years of the 21st century, this very short novel promised much as I began to read. The narrator is a young Irish girl, Mairéad, who has escaped from Ireland to work in the wardrobe department, but who has to retur ...more | |
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| Three Days in June, although fairly short, packs a lot into its pages. Anne Tyler deftly observes daily life over the course of three days as Gail prepares for the wedding of her daughter Debbie. Gail is not the most prescient of people and stuff jus ...more | |
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