Motherland

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Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. On the eve of her 37th birthday, Fran Clark finds herself in a role she would never have envisioned: that of a desperate housewife. He was always fairly good at drawing, so his parents packed him off to an art school in London to learn a trade. Alors pour oublier qu'elle est devenue une desperate housewife, Fran prend un ou deux verres de chardonnay.

But with her confidence shot and a husband who no longer knows how to help her, most days all she sees is the bottom of a wine glass.But Amy's life isn't all it seems, in fact she is keeping THE BIGGEST SECRET IN THE WORLD, EVER, a secret that will shame her to her family and friends and that she mustn't ever,ever let out. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate. About the Author Maria Beaumont is twenty-one, or twenty-eight, or sometimes thirty-eight — it depends on how good the lighting is.

I thought it impossible to come up with a pseudo - I wanted to be Paige Turner but Matt (my husband) said that was really naff. As Fran halfheartedly attempts to relaunch her once-vibrant career as a voiceover artist and obsesses over keeping up with the ruthless mothers’ scene at her children’s school, she begins to realize that her thirty-seventh year isn’t going to resemble the midlife bliss she had imagined. Two more novels, MissFit and Motherland, soon followed and she also wrote Rubbish Boyfriends under the pseudonym Jessie Jones. She has since re-invented herself as a respectable middle-class housewife living in a posh North London suburb. Taschenbuch (TB); 425 Seiten -/- Zustand: sehr gut ; als Mängelexemplar gekennzeichnet, ungelesen, leichte Lagerspuren -** Kein Auslandsversand in die Mitgliedsstaaten der EU möglich **.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Literate and well written, 37 is a searingly intimate and compulsively readable novel, a very modern diary of a (not quite) mad housewife. On the eve of her thirty-seventh birthday, Fran Clark finds herself in a role she would never have envisioned: that of a surprisingly desperate housewife. Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Bahamas Bahrain Barbados Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Svalbard and Jan Mayen Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Virgin Islands (U.

If I had written a beautiful, selfless, supremely intelligent heroine, would the same women have seen themselves in the book then? It chronicles the approaching midlife of Fran Clark, a talented former voice over actress living in London. When everything is finally turned upside down on the night of her party, Fran has to choose between finding a way to recreate herself or give in to the alcoholism that runs in her family and potentially ruin her children’s childhood.The best thing about being an author is that you can work from home and so the smoking ban has absolutely no effect on you whatsoever.

Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. It conjures up images of fluffy airheads who are too vacuous to read anything that doesn't have the words, 'yummy' or 'mummy' or 'slummy' in them.

No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. But when Fran realizes she has failed her children one too many times, and begins to suspect her husband is having an affair, she knows she has hit rock bottom. In the mad, bad days following her breakup with the georgous but despicabel Kake, Amy took a pseudonym and wrote a novel detailing the incredible sexploits of one Donna Sanderson, the 'Indiana Jones of Shagging', a book that 'pits fresh-faced girly wit against sweaty pelvis-pounding eroticism' (Cosmopolitan), 'subverts the chick-lit genre with a coruscating shock of raw, hard sex' (Time Out), and disgusts this reviewer to the very core of his being' (Daily Telegraph).