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Only Human

By: Susie Boyt

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Marjorie Hemming, marriage guidance counsellor, craves concord and harmony the way other people need cigarettes. But cracks are starting to show in the world she's so carefully remade after her early widowhood. Some of her couples refuse to kiss and make up: even Nurse Rose, the t.v. heroine who looks so like Marjorie, seems about to make a foolhardy blunder. When her adored teenage daughter unexpectedly moves out, this professional expert on human affairs is forced to look at matters a little closer to home.

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Headline Book Publishing

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074726516X

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9780747265160

My Judy Garland Life

A Memoir

By: Susie Boyt

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My Judy Garland Life

A Memoir

By: Susie Boyt

Judy Garland has been an important figure in Susie Boyt's life since she was three years old, comforting, inspiring, and at times disturbing her. In this unique book Boyt travels deep into the underworld of hero-worship, examining our understanding of rescue, consolation, love, grief, and fame through the prism of Judy. Her journey takes in a duetting breakfast with Mickey Rooney, a munchkin luncheon, a late-night spree at the Minnesota Judy Garland Museum, and a breathless, semi-sacred encounter with Liza Minnelli. Layering key episodes from Garland's life with defining moments from her own, Boyt demands with insight and humor, what it means, exactly, to adore someone you don't know. Does hero worship have to be a pursuit that's low in status or can it be performed with pride and style? Are there similarities that lie at the heart of all fans? Chronicling her obsession, Boyt illuminates her own life and perfectly distills why Judy Garland is such a legend.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608191443

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9781608191444

Loved and Missed

By: Susie Boyt

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Loved and Missed

By: Susie Boyt

Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, who is addicted to drugs, has just had a baby, Lily. Ruth adjusts herself in ways large and small to give to Eleanor what she thinks she may need—nourishment, distance, affection—but all her gifts fall short. After someone dies of an overdoes in Eleanor's apartment, Ruth hands her daughter an envelope of cash and takes Lily home with her, and Lily, as she grows, proves a compensation for all of Ruth's past defeats and disappointment. Love without fear is a new feeling for her, almost unrecognizable. Will it last? Love and Missed is a whip-smart, incisive, and mordantly witty novel about love's gains and missteps. British writer Susie Boyt's seventh novel, and the first to be published in the United States, is a triumph.

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209

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New York Review of Books

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1681377810

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9781681377810

Love & Fame

By: Susie Boyt

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Love & Fame

By: Susie Boyt

Susie Boyt's sixth novel is the story of the first year of a marriage. Eve a nervous young actress from a powerful theatrical dynasty has found herself married to an international expert on anxiety called Jim. Could it work? Should it work? Must the show always go on? This is a highly-strung comedy about love, fame, grief, showbusiness and the depths of the gutter press. Its witty and sincere tone - familiar to fans of Susie's newspaper column - will delight and unnerve in equal measure.

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Hachette UK

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0349008922

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9780349008929

Loved and Missed

By: Susie Boyt

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My Judy Garland Life

A Memoir

By: Susie Boyt

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A Memoir

By: Susie Boyt

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Furies

Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors

By: Margaret Atwood,Ali Smith,Emma Donoghue,Kirsty Logan,Chibundu Onuzo,Caroline O'Donoghue,Linda Grant,Susie Boyt,Stella Duffy,Kamila Shamsie,Helen Oyeyemi,Rachel Seiffert,CN Lester,Claire Kohda,Eleanor Crewes,Annie Hodson

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Furies

Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors

Wonderful ... all killer, no filler' Red Magazine 'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror 'Where power and feminist rage meet' Stylist ______________________________ A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers: Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Donoghue, Stella Duffy, Linda Grant, Claire Kohda, CN Lester, Kirsty Logan, Caroline O'Donoghue, Chibundu Onuzo, Helen Oyeyemi, Rachel Seiffert, Kamila Shamsie and Ali Smith - introduced by Sandi Toksvig. DRAGON. TYGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words that have defined and decried us. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood; words that tell a story. In this blazing cauldron of a book, fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers have taken up their pens and reclaimed these words, creating an entertaining and irresistible collection of feminist tales for our time. 'A slick collection of clever tales, with something for bluestockings and banshees alike' Guardian 'Delightful, thought-provoking' Louisa Young, Perspectives

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Virago

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0349017131

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9780349017136

The Characters of Love

By: Susie Boyt

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The Characters of Love

By: Susie Boyt

THE CHARACTERS OF LOVE beautifully captures the fledgling emotions of a young woman in thrall to her hungry heart. Susie Boyt reveals a shockingly acute ability to depict the triumphs and disasters of love.

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Phoenix

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0753802309

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9780753802304

The Last Hope of Girls

By: Susie Boyt

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The Last Hope of Girls

By: Susie Boyt

Newly installed as resident caretaker of four half-derelict West End flats, Martha Brazil can scarcely believe her luck. But even in her new home painful memories intrude: of a high-handed father, a mother willing to embrace only the chronically disposessed and an estranged brother.

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074727097X

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9780747270973

Furies

Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors

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The Normal Man

By: Susie Boyt

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The Normal Man

By: Susie Boyt

Janey March inhabits a world where food and love are king. Worn down by starvation diets and a series of romances that have raised and dashed her hopes, she longs for domestic bliss, and all the bread and jam she can eat, but most of all for her father, dead now ten years. Spanning one eventful weekend, The Normal Man is a delightful and acute portrait of a singular psychology. Strewn with jokes and eccentricities, and peopled with characters of questionable normality, it marks the debut of a wonderful new talent.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited

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1857994213

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9781857994216

Book's by Susie Boyt

Only Human

Only Human

My Judy Garland Life

My Judy Garland Life

Loved and Missed

Loved and Missed

Love & Fame

Love & Fame

Loved and Missed

Loved and Missed

My Judy Garland Life

My Judy Garland Life

Furies

Furies

The Characters of Love

The Characters of Love

The Last Hope of Girls

The Last Hope of Girls

Furies

Furies

The Normal Man

The Normal Man

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