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|author=Ann Leary
|title=The Good House
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Hildy Good has reached a strange stage in her life. She's entering her seventh decade (that's one of the few phrases that make ''sixty'' feel good) and divorced. Most people - Hildy included - would have said that she had a lot of friends, but the reality is a little different. Her daughters had staged an intervention because they thought that her drinking had got out of control and after a period in rehab Hildy found social occasions a little difficult. Evenings spent at home - on her own - were no fun.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178239320X</amazonuk>
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|title=The Reluctant Cannibals
|summary=Although you might not immediately realise it, this is the story of a ring, the people associated with it and of one particular ''real'' woman who created something of which few people can be unaware. That woman was Mary Frances Gerety, a copywriter with Ayer and Son - one of of the eminent advertising agencies in the nineteen forties. Under some pressure to come up with a phrase for de Beers adverts, Frances scribbled ''A Diamond is Forever'' - one of the most memorable lines in advertising. Frances never married but was probably single-handedly responsible for diamonds being the favoured stone in engagement rings. Her story weaves its way through the stories of our fictional couples.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089363</amazonuk>
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