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BEFORE EVERYTHING
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| By: |
Victoria Redel |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1473651832 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781473651838 |
| Publisher: |
HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION |
| Pub. date: |
27 June, 2017 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Before Everything is an ode to friendship for readers of Anne Tyler, Kate Atkinson and Ann Patchett, full of dry humour, quiet wisdom and huge empathy. |
| Synopsis: |
End of sixth grade they made it their official name. It was a joke one afternoon but they liked the way it sounded. Permanent. The Old Friends. This way, the five girls agree, it's just a fact. And ours forever.Anna, Molly, Ming, Caroline, Helen: the Old Friends.Since adopting their official name aged eleven, they have seen each other through careers, children, illnesses, marriage, divorce, addiction, fame, fall outs.But now, Anna - fiercely loved mother and friend, and the Old Friends' glue - is diagnosed with cancer again, and this time, tired of recoveries and relapses, pitying looks and exhausting regimes, she simply says: no more.As her health declines, the politics of the still lived-in world merge with memories of the past while each Old Friend tries to accept the truth of what is happening: they are losing someone they cannot imagine life without.Some will fight her decision, some will accept it, but all will rejoice in a life fully lived. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Sceptre |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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