<P><B>* SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE 2022 *</B><br><B><br>A deeply affecting and unconventional love story, shot through with anger, black humour and grief. </B><br><br>One ordinary morning, Laurie''s husband Mark vanishes, leaving behind his phone and wallet. For weeks, she tells no one, carrying on her job as a cleaner at the local university, visiting her tricky, dementia-suffering father and holing up in her tower-block flat with a bottle to hand. When she finally reports Mark as missing, the police are suspicious. Why did she take so long? Wasn''t she worried?<br><br>It turns out there are many more mysteries in Laurie''s account of events, though not just because she glosses over the facts. At the time, she couldn''t explain much of her behaviour herself. But as she looks back on the ensuing wreckage - the friendships broken, the wild accusations she made, the one-night stand - she can see more clearly what lay behind it. And if it''s not too late, she can see how she might
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<p>''Dark, compelling, beautifully written''<br>Andrew Michael Hurley<br><br>In this eerie, atmospheric and mysterious tale, a woman returns to the house in Morecambe Bay where she grew up in the 1960s to find...
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Annie is obese, lonely and hopeful. Armed with self-help books, her cat and a collection of cow-shaped milk jugs, she moves into her new home and sets about getting to know the neighbours, especially the man next door. She ignores her neighbour''s...
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The tale of an English Mormon family and the day the cracks in their lives yawn into chasms, as savagely funny as it is tragic.
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