Kyle Astley likes his life just the way it is but the people close to him don't seem to get that. All of his friends are now either married with kids or in a serious relationship, which means they don't have the time to hang out like they used to.Kyle panics when the girl he has been secretly sleeping with on and off for years gets engaged to someone else and he stupidly tries to steal her away with the promise of a commitment. But Kyle is scared of commitment and has never even had a girlfriend before. When he meets Alice's cousin at her engagement party, suddenly his plans to win Alice back don't seem all that important anymore.Jessica Miller has recently been dumped by her boyfriend of three years. She's stuck in a rut and can't seem to move past him. When her cousin's former casual hook up shows her attention at her engagement party, Alice comes up with the brilliant idea that Jessica should sleep with Kyle so that he stops trying to win her back and the... Views: 586
'Witty, warm and wonderful. I loved it!' MILLY JOHNSON
on The Year of Surprising Acts of Kindness
Could this be the best place on earth...?
Wanda lives in the middle of nowhere. On a farm on the edge of a hill that's not quite high enough to be a proper mountain, in a little village that's seen better days. She's always dreamed of escaping, of travelling the world, but life has got in the way.
When her mother ends up in hospital and her sister is preoccupied and pregnant with twins, Wanda has to take responsibility for the farm, and the campsite on its green fields.
Together with the community - and some old faces who she'd thought were long gone - Wanda sets about sprucing up the campsite, replacing tired old tents with yurts, replanting the allotment and providing lovely homemade goodies for the campers.
But can she turn the place around and entice the world to camp under a starry sky...
Praise for Laura Kemp:
'Warm, funny, sweet...what a fab read' LUCY DIAMOND
'A truly wonderful and heart-warming read' HEIDI SWAIN
'An absolute joy' ISABELLE BROOM
'I loved it' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'An adorable life-affirming book' ROWAN COLEMAN
'Moments that will steal your heart' MIRANDA DICKINSON Views: 586
This teen-friendly guide—for girls ages 13 to 18—from counselor Sissy Goff will help your daughter understand anxiety's roots and why her brain is often working against her when she worries. In this book filled with stories and self-discovery exercises, she will find more of her voice and her confidence, discovering the brave girl God made her to be. Views: 586
"A free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust...this execrable crew of butchers."—Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan SwiftLucas Baird never got much of a break when he was a child, but by his early twenties, his good looks and easy manner allow him to skate through life without having to put in much effort. On the cusp of manhood in years yet still a boy—what Anthony Trollope called a hobbledehoy—charming Luke has enjoyed his extended adolescence of drinking and small-time cons. But when a freak accident compels him to leave LA—and leave fast—he finds himself in New York, in the seemingly idyllic Long Island beach town of Shorelane, where through a drunken mistake, he becomes trapped in a life-or-death ordeal. Luke's only potential saviors are a group of local children, who are themselves lost and destined for paths much the same as Luke's—if not worse—and a young woman, equally lost. For Luke to finally cross into manhood, he... Views: 586
