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BRIT LIT Funnny Contemporary Fiction from "Across the Pond"
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by Cecelia Ahern
What happens when two people who are meant to be together can't seem to get it right?
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by Trisha Ashley
Charlotte (Charlie) Rhymer's husband wants a divorce. Charlie isn't sure what she wants, but after the incident with the frying pan, even she has to concede that their differences may be irreconcilable after all.
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by Raffaella Barker
Meet Venetia Summers, a charmingly disorganized, thirtysomething single mom who's doing her best to raise her kids and keep her sanity in a rural English cottage amidst a maelstrom of pets, plants, and wacky relatives.
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The Little Lady Agency by Hester BrowneOut of work for the third time in 18 months, Melissa decides to open an agency and hire out her organizational skills to bachelors who don't have a "little lady" to take care of their shopping, social calendars, and other domestic chores.
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by Elizabeth Buchan
Tom and Annie's kids have grown up, the mortgage is do-able, and they're about to get a gorgeous new, state-of-the-art French stove. Life is good -- or so it seems. Beneath the veneer of professional success and domestic security, their marriage is crumbling.
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by Jenny Colgan
One woman's mad dash to put a stop to the wedding of her old school friend who's the complete opposite of the sweet Scottish lord she's marrying.
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by Kate Eberlen
what if you just walked by the love of your life, but didn't even know it?
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by Imogen Edwards-Jones
Belinda Smith has found her very own Tuscan valley in the sun, her own too, too divine bed and breakfast. Everything is coming up sunflowers and olive groves for La Contessa of the Valley. Life couldn’t be more perfecto! Until, that is, the arrival of Lauren ...
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by Katie Fforde
Eagerly visiting New York to escape her suffocating family, young Englishwoman Sophie clashes with her hostess's arrogant grandson, who follows her back to England with an unconventional proposal.
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by Helen Fielding
With it's roots in a London newspaper column written by Fielding, this is really the book that catapulted "Chick Lit" into hugely popular genre, which, in turn, spawned all the various "subgenres" of Chick Lit.
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by Marian Keyes
"February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated."
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by Sophie Kinsella
Normal professional twenty-something young women don't get visited by ghosts. Or do they?
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by Anna Maxted
Holly is a charming British twentysomething who runs her own upstart dating agency, Girl Meets Boy. Although she has broken up with fiance Nick - who, except for lack of maturity and direction, seems utterly darling - they still cohabit in the London house they own (Holly has been too busy to give him the boot).
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by Gil McNeil
London-based Molly Taylor, a newly divorced mother of three boys, inherits her late Aunt Helena's manor house and bed-and-breakfast, located on the Devon coast in England. Her inheritance includes caring for her Uncle Bertie, a former navy officer, and his pesky parrot.
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by Jojo Moyes
Nell Simmons has gone out on a limb for once and booked a spontaneous romantic weekend in Paris with her boyfriend, Pete. By the time Pete admits that he's not just late but not coming at all, it's too late for Nell to turn back.
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by Melissa NathanAfter years as a sweet, good-natured pushover, Annie has had to face up to three hard truths: You've got to be tough to succeed. Sometimes your meddling loved ones are right about your worthless, no-good boyfriend being worthless and no good. The only reliable thing about men is that they're totally unreliable. also available in alternate format(s)
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by Allison Pearson
London career woman and mother Kate Reddy, begins her day at 1:37 one morning as Kate, disdainful of stay-at-home moms but intimidated by their homemaking skills, alters store-bought pies to pass off as homemade at her daughter's school the next day.
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by Josie Silver
On a winter day in London, Laurie spots Jack from her bus home and he sparks a feeling in her so deep that she spends the next year searching for him. Her roommate and best friend, Sarah, unknowingly ends the search by finding Jack and falling for him herself.
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by Madeleine Wickham
As Milly Havill prepares for her elaborate wedding to the precisely perfect man, she doesn't give a thought to her frivolous past-not until the photographer mentions seeing her on her previous wedding day 10 years before.
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by Isabel Wolff
Believing she has the perfect marriage and husband, weathergirl Faith Martin unexpectedly finds her world spinning out of control when her stylish best friend makes a casual remark that forces Faith to question her husband's fidelity.
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Main Branch Richmond Public Library 101 E. Franklin St. Richmond, VA 23219 (804)646-7223
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