Windsor Selection S.
5 total works
Celia - housewife, mother and wonderful cook - lives in Bedford Park, London, where the major worries are dailies, private schooling and the misplaced zeal of Neighbourhood Watch vigilantes, and is celebrating her fortieth birthday. The comfy armpit of the English bourgeoisie never felt snuggler. But the cosy house of cards flops rapidly, as friends and a sister turn edgy and fickle, a long-term admirer turns into a crude jester, and Celia spies her husband embracing a ghastly woman in a 'Come Dancing' frock.
Diana, thirty-something bookshop owner, is single again but no longer able to listen to Brahms without stirring painful memories of her old love. Determined to make new memories, she joins the Academy of Forward Literature at Hassocks Hall.
Getting Back Brahms is a brilliant comedy of errors by one of our most gifted comic writers.
Getting Back Brahms is a brilliant comedy of errors by one of our most gifted comic writers.
Lovely home, lovely husband, lovely family. Apart from the envy of her less contented sister everything in Dilys' rags-to-riches life is lovely, lovely, lovely. Until the day she meets a man at a railway station who is also - lovely. As she hurtles towards either her destruction or her liberation she discovers that deceit is in the blueprint of our birth, that ancient Aunts have their own dark secrets, that envious sisters have their reasons. And that when Brief Encounters meet Basic instincts, the right choice, like truth, is rarely pure and never simple.
Pamela Pryor's son has, at last, left home. She feels free but also strangely restless. There have been three significant men in her life - Peter, her ex-husband; Douglas, style guru; and Dean, a beautiful younger man - all of whom have begun to think of Pamela in romantic terms once more.But Pamela wants to get to know herself again and can't quite decide which of her three suitors (if any) she should take up with.
In Mavis Cheek's delightful novel, Chloe sets out to prove to Tabitha that she can give her clients the makeover of a lifetime, and the quest for feminine perfection results in hilarious consequences. When Margery Pargeter, Gemma and Caroline decide, for various feminine reasons, to submit to the skills of Tabitha and Chloe in the search for eternal youth they find themselves taking on rather more than they bargained for . . .