It's never too late to bloom ' The Cactus will be compared to Gail Honeyman's 2017 hit the appealingly eccentric Eleanor Oliphant is Absolutely Fine' The Sunday Times' Wonderfully funny & astute' Red' Funny compelling well-writtenfor fans of Marian Keyes who demand a bit of grit in their comic writing' Emerald Street' Legal battles lapses of logic & the joys & fears of motherhood are explored in this astute funny & moving novel of a woman learning how to let go' Daily Mail' An original engaging & totally believable character'
- Graeme Simsion author of The Rosie Project People aren't sure what to make of Susan Green
- family & colleagues find her prickly & hard to understand but Susan makes perfect sense to herself & that's all she needs At 45 she thinks her life is perfect as long as she avoids her feckless brother Edward
- a safe distance away in Birmingham She has a London flat which is ideal for one; a job that suits her passion for logic; & a personal arrangement providing cultural & other more intimate benefits Yet suddenly faced with the loss of her mother & implausibly with the possibility of becoming a mother herself Susan's greatest fear is being realised she is losing control When she discovers that her mother's will inexplicably favours her brother Susan sets out to prove that Edward & his equally feckless friend Rob somehow coerced this dubious outcome But when problems closer to home become increasingly hard to ignore she finds help in the most unlikely of places This sparkling debut is a breath of fresh air with real heart & a powerful emotional punch In Susan we find a character as exasperating & delightful as The Rosie Project's Don Tillman An uncompromising feminist & a fierce fighter it's a joy to watch her bloom' Gloriousit twists & turns through human nature wonderfully' Kat Brown' If like me you never stopped to think what a child born of The Rosie Project's Don Tillman & Bridget Jones might be like there's one way to find out Read Sarah Haywood's The Cactus Meet Susan Green She doesn't understand how funny she is which is delicious' Julia Claiborne Johnson author of Be Frank with Me


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IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO BLOOMPeople aren't sure what to make of Susan Green
- a prickly independent woman who has everything just
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Disc 11 Desperado 2 I&m Calling You 3 Please Don&t Call Me Crazy 4 Got A Lotta Love 5 Easy Way 6 Downtown 7 Boomerang 8 See It Through 9 I Am The Road 10 Blue As The Ocean ...

Soon to be a Netflix Original starring Reese Witherspoon as control-queen Susan Green who aged 45 falls unexpectedly pregnant & real life in all its messiness shows her it's never too late to bloom 384 pages Haywood Sarah ...

In just four months in 2009 Sri Lanka's 26 year-old desperate civil war came to a brutal & bloody end on a desolate stretch of beach in the island's north east 400 pages Weiss Gordon ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Nominated for seven Academy Awards in 1954 including Best Picture & Best Actor The Caine Mutiny is a classic film about the unstable Captain Queeg (Humphrey Bogart) & his tumultuous command of an old minesweeper & her weary crew On the high seas during the dramatic battles of World War II Queeg’s by-the-book approach pushes his crew & his popular second-in-command Lt Maryk (Van Johnson) to the breaking point After a series of questionable orders Maryk confronts Queeg when he orders the ship directly into the path of a deadly typhoon Maryk invokes naval code & relieves Queeg of his command forcing the crew to mutiny Once safely back in port Maryk is court-martialed for treason setting off a tense trial that exposes the true state of Queeg’s mind Nominated for Best Actor Humphrey Bogart gives a searing performance as he is systematically broken down in this classic tale of military conduct in a time of war ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Humphrey Bogart is Lt Commander Queeg the skipper of the minesweeper Caine who when involuntarily relieved of his command during a violent typhoon brings his officers up on charges for conspiring Nominated for seven 1954 Academy Awards
- including Best Picture & Actor (Bogart)
- & co-staring Jose Ferrer Van Johnson & Fred Mac Murray the Caine Mutiny is an exciting adaptation of Herman Wouk&s Pulitzer Prize novel

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In Egypt a tomb is opened In London a curse is unleashed Poppy Denby Investigates 352 pages Smith Fiona Veitch ...

Tracklist A1 Broken Record A2 Real Enough To Believe A3 That's When It's Over B1 Untouchable B2 In The Heart Of Her Heart B3 Let It Gain You B4 Will It To Be B5 What Can You Do? ...

Filled with compelling drama earthy humour & remarkable insight this book traces three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence 1376 pages Mahfouz Naguib ...