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Zoe is a single mother, sinking beneath the waves trying to cope by herself in London. Hari, her gorgeous little boy is perfect in every way except for the fact that he just doesn't speak, at all.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Jenny Colgan
- First published
- 2019
- Publisher
- William Morrow Paperbacks
- Editions
- 1
- ISBN
- 9780062913555
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Jenny T. Colgan was born in 1972 in Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK. After studying at Edinburgh University, she worked for six years in the health service, moonlighting as a cartoonist and a stand-up comic, before the publication of her first novel Amanda's Wedding in 2000. In 2013, her novel "Welcome to Rosie Hopkin's Sweetshop of Dreams" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She is now working on her next novel. She is married with Andrew, a marine engineer, and had three children, Wallace, Michael-Francis, and Delphie. She mostly lives in France, with frecuently visits to London. She occasionally writes for The Guardian newspaper, as well as a
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