I really enjoyed this- it was funny and interesting. It balanced the multiple stories well, having enough to maintain a fast paced and interesting narrative, but not so many that the individual strands were neglected or rushed. There were rather a lot of characters who weren't quite distinctive e...
From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel East is East and West is West… Fresh from London, Christine and Donald Manley have come to the alien swelter of Karachi: Christine to conceive a child, Donald to sell the Pill for a pharmaceutical company. Among the ex-pats already t...
”Everything he sees speaks tulip to him. Comely women are tulips; their skirts are petals, swinging around the pollen-dusted stigmas of their legs.” Amsterdam in the 1630s was considered one of the richest cities in the world. Trade had been very good for the Dutch. Citizens were becoming very c...
Well told tale of incest from a bit very loving family in the first person, leading up to where the narrator is now.Good stuff.
This book disappointed me.It was first published (in 2004) with the title “Those Foolish Things.” It was later renamed “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” following the release in 2011 of the film with that name, which is based on it.I read the book because I had seen the film and enjoyed it, and al...
I just loved this book! It was an easy read but with a compelling storyline that made it unputdownable. Celeste seemed a bit wierd meeting up with all Buffy's ex wives but it made sense in the end. He was a completely likeable character , not that I'd want to sleep with him as his various medical...
Historical, domestic and sexy like Moggach’s best-selling Tulip Fever, this is a tantalizing, page-turning story set in South London’s dark and dirty streets during WWI. 1916: Pretty young Eithne Clay runs a shabby-genteel South London boarding house while her husband is off at the War. There’s ...
Two very different sisters - well three, but one doesn't get much of a look in - take paths through the world which are not at all the ones their parents expect. I couldn't really believe the relationships upon which the older two chose to embark, although their reasons were sympathetically descr...
From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Natalie is a girl who should be going somewhere. Beautiful, bright and ambitious, she’s stuck in a dead-end job in the accounts department of Nu-Line Telecommunications, living her life through wild weekends and yearning for something...
Today she kept her back to the staffroom and spoke in a whisper. Viv gazed at the broad bottom in the faded jeans. She resented Madeleine for using the phone, yet she felt grateful to her for delaying things. She sat down on the sofa beside Harold, who looked up from his Guardian. ‘Trevor wrote m...
‘I’ve hated keeping it a secret. After all, we’ve always told each other everything.’ My head’s spinning. I gape at her as she sits there. She looks quite calm. ‘I don’t believe it.’ ‘Sorry.’ ‘But—’ ‘You don’t want to know the reason,’ she says. ‘You so don’t.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Because you were fond o...
It faced the village green. Years before, there had been a butcher’s shop next door, and a hardware shop up the road towards the church. The older residents could even remember the days when there had been a ladies’ outfitters called Meryl Modes in a building that had since been flattened to crea...
But then Soho itself was a long way from Soho. Buffy’s old watering ground had changed out of all recognition; it was now filled with young people bellowing at each other and vomiting in the gutter; Buffy had no place there any more. He remembered, once, digging up potatoes – those firm, white yo...