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Long Hot Summer
Lorna Brown has everything...so why does she feel so dissatisfied? The clothes, the house, the Poggenpohl kitchen do nothing to give her life meaning. The…
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The Man Who Understood Women
A delightful series of short stories, providing a composite portrait of women and how the worlds they inhabit have changed over the past 50 years.…
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Paris Summer
In the hottest summer in living memory, Judith Flatland, together with her two children, leaves Boston and the Museum of Fine Arts to follow her…
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Patients of a Saint
The doctor's practice, first introduced in No White Coat and again in Love on my List, is expanding. He finds himself buckling under the strain…
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Practice Makes Perfect
Through a series of events, in turn hilarious and tragic, we are drawn into the world of the GP. With a growing family, his wife's…
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Rose of Jericho
Kitty's husband, Sydney, is dead, and eighteen months later, she is still struggling to come to terms with his death. She takes comfort in the…
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The Fraternity
It is the early Sixties. The parents of law student, Peach Gatehouse, are both doctors and her brother is a medical student. She is in…
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Intensive Care
Professor Sidney Sands, wife of a mathematician and devoted mother of a young son, is researching a cure for a fatal lung disease when ironically…
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Love on My List
The young GP is adapting to married life with Sylvia while contending with the endless demands facing a family doctor. His initial worries that Sylvia…
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No White Coat
When the young registrar leaves his post in the hospital for a career in General Practice, he has a lot to learn. There is no…
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An Eligible Man
His Honour Judge Christopher Osgood is utterly unprepared for life on his own when his wife dies. He is completely overwhelmed by a desperate loneliness…
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A Second Wife
'I was not a widow. Had I been married to Victor it might have been easier. It was Molly who had the comfort of the…
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Writing Game
Based on the author's own experience The Writing Game answers questions such as 'how long does it take you to write a novel?', 'where do…
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Life Is a Joke
The hazards and secrets of the book trade and writing for television and the theatre are revealed and co-mingle with the joys of travel, family…