‘I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.’ ~Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter’s Hilltop Home – Based up in Cumbria, Potter bought Hilltop Home with the royalties from her first books. She created characters like Tom Kitten, Samuel […]
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Find out more about Rebecca Wells, born 8 February 1952
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by Kristin Hannah (St Martin’s Griffin) ISBN: 9780312537074 Firefly Lane is a poignant coming of age tale about two friends who meet during their adolescence in 1974 with all the music, clothes and fads that go with the era. As the years go by they help one another through the highs and lows of life. Tully
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J.D. Salinger was born 1Â January 1919, and died 27 January 2010.
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E.M. Forster was born 1 January 1879, and died 7 June 1970.
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All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story. ~Karen Blixen Karen Blixen’s study at Rungsted, Denmark. Read more about Karen Blixen here. Source for Image
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by Louise Welsh (John Murray) ISBN: 9781848546608 Jane is pregnant. She is living in a strange city, she cannot speak the language and feels isolated whilst her partner, Petra, works. Unable to sleep at night, she hears screams from the next-door apartment. The next morning she sees Anna Mann, the neighbour’s teenage daughter, with bruises
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