In 1967 after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi & sent to Mc Lean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele
- Sylvia Plath Robert Lowell James Taylor & Ray Charles. A clear-sighted unflinching work that provokes questions about our definitions of sane & insane Kaysen's extraordinary memoir encompasses horror & razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients & their keepers.
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Lauren has always known she was adopted but when a little research turns up the possibility that she was snatched from an American family as a baby suddenly Lauren's life seems like a sham. How can she find her biological parents? & are her adoptive parents really responsible for kidnapping her? A family trip to the US gives her the chance to run away & try & find the truth. But the circumstances of her disappearance are murky & Lauren's kidnappers are still at large & willing to do anything to keep her silent... ...

How do you escape when you can't see the way out? Sixteen-year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mother fills her prescription. Before Cheyenne realizes what has happened the car is being stolen from the car park. Cheyenne is not only sick with pneumonia
- she is also blind. Griffin the teenage driver hadn't meant to kidnap her
- he was just stealing a car for the gang. But once Griffin's dad finds out that Cheyenne's father is the president of Nike everything changes
- now there's a reason to keep her. Will Cheyenne be able to survive this harrowing ordeal & escape? & if so at what price? This is a fast-paced thriller full of nail-biting suspense.


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In A Girl & Her Pig April Bloomfield takes us behind the scenes of her lauded restaurants
- the Spotted Pig the Breslin & the John
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Spring 1944 & Europe is in the grip of war. For Alice Todd it is the start of her second year as warden of the Land Army hostel in the Devonshire countryside & a time of change as she recovers from her broken marriage learning to balance her new working lifestyle with her continuing role as a mother to her only son. Her leadership has won her the affection & confidence of the land girls in her charge & as the seeds of friendship are sewn she finds herself increasingly caught up in the lives of the women who surround her. The Girl at the Farmhouse Gate" continues the story begun in the much-loved " Muddy Boots & Silk Stockings"." ...

Leaving the heartache of sexual betrayal behind her in London historian Sarah Thomson intends to make the most of her research trip to Venice. But she soon finds her attention consumed by mysterious millionaire Marco Donato. Despite their deepening relationship however the handsome playboy persists in playing a secretive game. What exactly is Marco hiding? The subject of Sarahs research is eighteenth-century Venetian Luciana Giordano. At a time when debauchery is the citys favourite pastime virginal Luciana is kept out of trouble by a zealous chaperone
- until she meets a man who promises to help her escape her restraints. But just what does the worldly stranger want to teach her in return?
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Born at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 Mary & Walter Tilfords baby daughter is named Thursday. It was meant to be a message of hope for the future
- but they could not foresee that by the time Thursday celebrated her 21st birthday Britain would once again be at war with Germany. Thursday is determined to help in the war effort & volunteers as a Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. She is attached to the Royal Navy & begins her service at Haslar Hospital on the shores of Portsmouth Harbour. The realities of war are brought home to her when the casualties begin to arrive from Dunkirk & Thursday begins to understand the true meaning of courage. While experiencing all the natural hopes & dreams of any young woman finding pleasure & joy as well as sorrow in her work Thursday is given her own opportunity to show strength & bravery in the face of war
- & find a lasting love.

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From the moment she takes her first step inside the Police station in her brand new Dr Marten boots PC Sally Gentles roller coaster ride in this male dominated environment begins. Girl Cop follows Sallys tentative start in an eye opening career which offers her some extraordinary experiences ranging from fascinating hilarious & emotive to the downright incredible. Will the spark between Sally & her tutor constable Alex ever be ignited? Will summary justice be served on the station bully? Will Sally complete the Bennetts Lane Challenge to become an honorary bloke? ...

Jane Green author of the best-sellers Second Chance" & " Straight Talking" examines love friendships & their limits in her moving & entertaining novel " Girl Friday". Since her divorce a year ago Kit Hargrove feels she has finally got her life back on track. Gone is the lonely Wall Street widow she used to be & in her place is a happier more fulfilled woman with a new job she loves
- working for uberfamous novelist Robert Mc Clore
- a small but cosy new home with her children & the beginnings of a tentative friendship with her exhusb&. She even has time for yoga classes with her new best friend Tracy. The only thing missing is a man. & when Tracy introduces her to Steve
- charming romantic & attentive
- Kit wonders if he could be the final piece of the jigsaw. But Kit doesnt know that Tracy is hiding a secret one that could destroy their friendship her happiness with Steve even her new life. Torn between suspicion & love Kit doesnt know which way to turn. For there are some betrayals that a friendship cant survive... Praise for Jane Green "A densely plotted brew of love & mistakes." (" The Times"). " Green keeps us transfixed until the very last word." (" Heat"). Bestselling author Jane Green has captured the imaginations of readers in the UK & the US with her frank & funny approach to those day-to-day issues that affect women everywhere. Other titles also published by Penguin include " The Other Woman" " Jemima J." " Babyville" " The Love Verb" (published as " Promises to Keep" in the USA) " Life Swap (Swapping Lives)" " The " Patchwork Marriage (Another Piece of My Heart)" " Spellbound (To Have & to Hold)" " The Beach House" " Mr. Maybe" & " Bookends". " Girl Friday" is published in the USA as " Dune Road"."



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When it comes to grades bookish high school student Mariko Kumakura is at the top of her class. Socially however she is shy & lonely typically eating lunch by herself. Enter the charismatic & beautiful Akko Oohashi whose goal is to befriend Mariko & burst her out of her introverted shell. In the process of transforming Plain Jane Mariko into one of the cutest most popular girls in school deep feelings begin to emerge that suggest something deeper than friendship. Will these feelings destroy the budding relationship between Mariko & Akko or will it turn into something else? ...