31 Dream Street
Michael Joseph Hardback 1st March 2007 £12.99
WHO LIVES IN A HOUSE LIKE THIS?
An Air Hostess. A Teenager. A Wild-Haired Recluse. A Rock Chick. An Old Man. A Human Chameleon.
Leah is fascinated by the strange mix of people living across the street from her at 31 Silversmith Road. She'd give anything to find out more about them, so when their reclusive landlord approaches her unexpectedly to ask for some advice, Leah is more than willing to help.
Toby is a failed poet and incurable romantic. For fifteen years he has lived happily in his rambling house filled with waifs and strays, until a quiet tragedy and an unwelcome letter force him to admit that it is time to move on. But how will he persuade his tenants to move on? His house is their refuge. Are they ready to face the real world?
Together, Leah and Toby must help the misfits at no. 31 to grow up and move out, but in doing so can they also make their own dreams come true?
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Vince and Joy
Paperback Penguin. 5 August 2005. £6.99
Vince and Joy are both looking for something …. in their teens, in family holidays and bathroom mirrors. In their twenties, in messy London flats and messy London relationships. In their thirties, in marriages that appear stable – and feel anything but.
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A
Friend Of The Family
Hardcover
- Michael Joseph £10.99,
3 July 2004
Paperback
- Penguin £6.99, 5 February 2004
Brothers Tony, Sean and Ned had the perfect upbringing. They adore their
parents and actually look forward to coming home for Sunday lunch. But
now they're grown up, real life is starting to get in the way. Tony's
dealing with divorce and a weight problem. Novelist Sean is up against
a serious case of writer's block and a shock announcement from his 'perfect'
new girlfriend. Their parents have a new lodger, Gervase; why is Bernie,
their mum, so keen to give this unsavoury waif a home? And what is the
real reason for kid brother Ned's surprise return from his travels in
Australia?
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One-Hit
Wonder (Penguin
£6.99 September 2001)
Bee Bearhorn had a number one hit single in 1985. And was never heard
of again. Fifteen years later she is found dead in her flat and nobody
seems to care.
Ana Wills has daydreamed for years about the famous and exotic half-sister
she hasn't seen since she was thirteen so when she comes to London to
clear out Bee's flat she is surprised to discover that her life was far
from glamorous. And there are some very strange things going on - a missing
cat, mysterious weekends away and a secret cottage in the country. Instead
of going home, Ana tracks down Bee's two closest friends, mad Lol and
strong, silent Flint and together they set out to find out whatever happened
to Bee Bearhorn
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Thirtynothing
Paperback
- Penguin £6.99, September 2000
Have you ever wondered what happened to your first love?
Imagine bumping into your first love twelve years after you last saw her. Imagine that she's even better-looking that she was when she was eighteen and that you ask her out for dinner and she says yes. This is what happens to Dig Ryan on the day of this thirtieth birthday
Now imagine that you're Nadine, Dig's best friend for the last fifteen years. Imagine that Delilah was your nemesis at school and that even after twelve years, you can't bear to be around her. You might find yourself feeling unexpectedly jealous and you might do something really childish like phoning your first love and asking him out, just to get your own back.
This
is a story about ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends and what happens when
you start messing with the past. It's also a story about best friends
and growing up and how sometimes what you're looking for isn't in the
past or the future, but right under your nose.
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Ralph's
Party
Paperback
- Penguin £5.99, May 1999
Meet the residents of 31 Almanac Road in a romantic, engrossing novel
that takes you up the garden path, through the front door and into the
most intimate parts of other people's lives.
Ralph and Smith are best friends. Until they both fall for Jem, their new flatmate. Jem knows one of them's for her - but which one?
Karl and Siobhan live in the flat above. Happily unmarried for fifteen years, it looks as if nothing can spoil their domestic idyll.
Except
maybe Cheri, the femme fatale in the top flat. She's got her eye on Karl
and she isn't about the let his fat girlfriend stand in the way...
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