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The Unbearable Lightness of Scones / Alexander McCall Smith ; Illustrations by Iain McIntosh. - Wydanie 2. - London : Abacus, 2009. - 328 stron : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

(44 Scotland Street / Alexander McCall Smith ; 5)

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McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). McIntosh, Iain. McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). 44 Scotland Street (ang.)

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To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married love, the raffish portrait painter Angus Lordie has a premonition of disaster. And soon enough Irene Pollock is shocked to learn that her small son Bertie harbours a highly unsuitable ambition; the gloriously vain Bruce discovers a wrinkle and confronts rejection; and Angus finds himself facing the grave consequences of unbridled bliss, not to mention a large Glaswegian gangster bearing gifts...

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The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine / Alexander McCall Smith. - London : Abacus, 2019. - 246, [4] strony ; 20 cm.

(No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency / Alexander McCall Smith ; 16)

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McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (ang.)

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Mma Ramotswe is taking a break, leaving important tasks in the capable hands of Mma Makutsi, co-director of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. But Mma Ramotswe soon finds herself interfering in cases (secretly, or so she intends). While 'on holiday', she delves into the past of a man whose reputation is brought into question, she is called upon to rescue a small boy – and discovers Violet Sephotho's latest underhand business endeavour: the No. 1 Ladies' Secretarial College. Meanwhile, Mma Makutsi hires a part-time science teacher as an assistant, and suspects that her authority is being undermined. Will Mma Ramotswe be caught out?

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The World According to Bertie / Alexander McCall Smith ; Illustrations by Iain McIntosh. - Wydanie 2. - London : Abacus, 2008. - 329 stron : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

(44 Scotland Street / Alexander McCall Smith ; 4)

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McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). McIntosh, Iain. McCall Smith, Alexander (1948- ). 44 Scotland Street (ang.)

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Poor put-upon Bertie is still struggling to escape his overbearing mother's influence, his yoga lessons and his pink bedroom while wondering why new baby brother Ulysses looks uncomfortably like his psychotherapist. The insufferably handsome Bruce has returned from London to land, on his feet and rent-free, in the arms of heiress Julia Donald. But all is not well among the residents of 44 Scotland Street: Angus's dog and constant companion Cyril is under threat of execution, victim of a miscarriage of justice, while pretty, indecisive Pat and hopeless romantic Matthew are on the verge of making the most terrible mistake of their lives ...Big Lou finds a new man, Matthew and Pat edge their relationship towards something more permanent - although this development is not without complications, when a glimpse of someone who just might be her handsome, caddish ex-flatmate Bruce sets Pat's pulse racing - and Domenica's friendship with Antonia is tested to the limit when an assortment of her belongings mysteriously appear in Antonia's new flat.

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Our Missing Hearts / Celeste Ng. - London : Abacus, 2022. - 335 stron ; 24 cm.

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Ng, Celeste.

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Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard's library. Bird knows not to ask too many questions, stand out too much, stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic – including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey will take him through the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. This book is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can turn a blind eye to the most searing injustice. It's a story about the power – and limitations – of art to create change in the world, the lessons and legacies we pass onto our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact.

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An Orchestra of Minorities / Chigozie Obioma. - Wydanie 3. - London : Abacus, 2019. - [6], 516 stron : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

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Obioma, Chigozie (1986- ).

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Na górze okładki: Shortlisted for The Booker Prize 2019.

A young farmer named Chinonso prevents a woman from falling to her death. Bonded by this strange night on the bridge, he and Ndali fall in love, but it is a mismatch according to her family who reject him because of his lowly status. Is it love or madness that makes Chinonso think he can change his destiny? Set across Nigeria and Cyprus, An Orchestra of Minorities, written in the mythic style of the Igbo tradition, weaves a heart-wrenching tale about fate versus free will.

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The Mountain Shadow / Gregory David Roberts. - Wydanie 2. - London : Abacus, 2016. - 873 strony ; 20 cm.

(Shantaram / Gregory David Roberts ; 2)

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Roberts, Gregory David (1952- ). Roberts, Gregory David (1952- ). Shantaram (ang.)

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The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay's improvidence. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode, with my friends, into the end of everything. Shantaram introduced millions of readers to a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin, an Australian fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia. In The Mountain Shadow, the long-awaited sequel, Lin must find his way in a Bombay run by a different generation of mafia dons, playing by a different set of rules. It has been two years since the events in Shantaram, and since Lin lost two people he had come to love: his father figure, Khaderbhai, and his soul mate, Karla, married to a handsome Indian media tycoon. Lin returns from a smuggling trip to a city that seems to have changed too much, too soon. Many of his old friends are long gone, the new mafia leadership has become entangled in increasingly violent and dangerous intrigues, and a fabled holy man challenges everything that Lin thought he'd learned about love and life. But Lin can't leave the Island City: Karla, and a fatal promise, won't let him go.

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Shantaram / Gregory David Roberts. - Wydanie 3. - London : Abacus, 2004. - 933 strony ; 20 cm.

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Roberts, Gregory David (1952- ).

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Shantaram / Gregory David Roberts ; 1

So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere...

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Body Surfing / Anita Shreve. - Wydanie 3. - London : Abacus, 2018. - 264 strony ; 20 cm.

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Shreve, Anita (1946- ).

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At the age of twenty-nine, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to find her footing again, she has answered an advertisement to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt is threatened. With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant insight into real emotion that has led her to be called 'a supremely elegant anatomist of the human heart' (The Times), Shreve weaves a story about risk, family, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.

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Eden Close / Anita Shreve. - Wydanie 21. - London : Abacus, 2014. - 281 stron ; 20 cm.

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Shreve, Anita (1946- ).

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Andrew, an advertising executive in his mid-30s, returns to his hometown in upstate New York for his mother's funeral. He does not intend to stay in the slow rural backwater he left seventeen years before. But the dreams and memories persist and in the darkened farmhouse he relives that hot, bloody night when Eden Close was blinded -- by the same gun that killed her father. The enigmatic Eden had been Andrew's childhood companion. Together the two roamed summer cornfields, smoked their first forbidden cigarettes, skated, fished and fought until the tomboy turned temptress -- then their friendship ended. Now, despite warnings, Andrew is drawn again to this lost, blind girl of his youth, drawn to save her from the cruel neglect she has endured for seventeen sightless years without him. But first he must discover the grisly truth about that night . . .

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Fortune's Rocks / Anita Shreve. - London : Abacus, 2006. - [2], 453 strony ; 20 cm.

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Shreve, Anita (1946- ).

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Set 100 years ago in Boston, Fortune's Rocks is a classic of literary and romantic storytelling. Fourteen-year-old Olympic Biddeford is spending the summer with her parents at their seasonal house at Fortune's Rocks. Her father handles her education himself and is in fact a publisher of mildly liberal literature. One author he admires, who also practises as a physician, comes to visit the house. 40 years old, married with four children, he still embarks on an affair with the adolescent girl. They have a swift, passionate summer, torn apart when they are discovered together during Olympic's fifteenth birthday party. She is taken back to Boston, her parents are mortified and remove themselves from society. When Olympic is delivered of a baby boy nine months later, he is taken from her and she finds herself in exile at a ladies college and then as a governess. She decides she must get her child back, which means returning to Fortune's Rocks...This sensuality of a girl's rite of passage, the descriptions of landscape, weather, music and light, are vintage Shreve and her seventh novel will thrill her many admirers.

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The Last Time They Met / Anita Shreve. - Wydanie 7. - London : Abacus, 2005. - [2], 360 stron ; 20 cm.

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Shreve, Anita (1946- ).

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A dazzling story about marriage, forgiveness, and chances not taken, by the bestselling author of Body Surfing and A Wedding in December. At a literary festival a poet named Linda Fallon meets for the first time in years a fellow poet, Thomas Janes, whose fame has grown during a decade of seclusion. This is no chance meeting. Thomas saw that Linda was scheduled to appear, and chose this moment to re-establish contact with a woman he had passionately pursued years earlier. Their affair was disastrous for them both, a turning point in their lives, and the damage they did in those years still haunts them both.

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The Pilot's Wife / Anita Shreve. - Wydanie 29. - London : Abacus, 2014. - 293 strony ; 20 cm.

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Shreve, Anita (1946- ).

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Being married to a pilot has taught Kathryn Lyons to be ready for emergencies, but nothing has prepared her for the late-night knock on her door and the news of her husband's fatal crash. As Kathryn struggles through her grief, she is forced to confront disturbing rumours about the man she loved and the life that she took for granted. Torn between her impulse to protect her husband's memory and her desire to know the truth, Kathryn sets off to find out if she ever really knew the man who was her husband. In her determination to test the truth of her marriage, she faces shocking revelations about the secrets a man can keep and the actions a woman is willing to take.

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Resistance / Anita Shreve. - Wydanie 2. - London : Abacus, 1996. - 309 stron ; 20 cm.

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Shreve, Anita (1946- ).

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Kobieta Małżeństwo II wojna światowa (1939-1945) Okupacja Ruch oporu Lotnicy Belgia

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As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Dussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic. But the B-17 bomber that crash-lands outside the village of Delahaut contains the man who will be both the last and the most significant of her temporary residents. Ted Brice is found semi-conscious by ten-year-old Jean Benoit, who realises that Claire is the American pilot's only hope of survival. The month that follows is one that will stay with them both for the rest of their lives. A few weeks only, it is a period in which the war recedes in the face of more powerful forces – before imposing itself once more with shocking sadness.

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Sea Glass / Anita Shreve. - Wydanie 11. - London : Abacus, 2014. - 356 stron ; 20 cm.

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Shreve, Anita (1946- ).

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As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Dussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic. But the B-17 bomber that crash-lands outside the village of Delahaut contains the man who will be both the last and the most significant of her temporary residents. Ted Brice is found semiconscious by ten-year-old Jean Benoit, who realises that Claire is the American's pilot's only hope of survival. The month that follows is one that will stay with them both for the rest of their lives. A few weeks only, a handful of days, it is a period in which the war recedes in the face of more powerful forces - before imposing itself once more with shocking sadness.

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The Stars are Fire / Anita Shreve. - Wydanie 2. - London : Abacus, 2018. - 305 stron ; 20 cm.

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Shreve, Anita (1946- ).

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1947. Fires are racing along the coast of Maine after a summer-long drought, ravaging thousands of acres, causing unprecedented confusion and fear. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her difficult and unpredictable husband Gene joins the volunteers fighting to bring the fire under control. Along with her best friend, Rosie, and Rosie's two young children, the women watch in horror as their houses go up in flames, then walk into the ocean as a last resort. They spend the night frantically trying to save their children. When dawn comes, they have miraculously survived, but their lives are forever changed: homeless, penniless, and left to face an uncertain future. As Grace awaits news of her husband's fate, she is thrust into a new world in which she must make a life on her own, beginning with absolutely nothing; she must find work, a home, a way to provide for her children. In the midst of devastating loss, Grace discovers glorious new freedoms - joys and triumphs she could never have expected her narrow life with Gene could contain - and her spirit soars. And then the unthinkable happens, and Grace's bravery is tested as never before.

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Strange Fits of Passion / Anita Shreve. - London : Abacus, 2006. - 372 strony ; 20 cm.

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Shreve, Anita (1946- ).

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A young and successful journalist working in New York, Maureen English appears to have the perfect life and family. But Maureen's husband, a highly respected fellow reporter, has in private a tendency towards alcohol and violent abuse. When the situation at home becomes intolerable, Maureen takes her baby daughter and flees. In a Maine fishing town she assumes a new identity and spends six weeks battling sub-zero temperatures, the intrusive glare of the townsfolk -- and her fears of discovery. Against the force of the wintry sea -- the cawing of the gulls, the lobstermen hauling their catch, the press of waves against the rocks -- Maureen settles into the rhythms of a new life. Two married men pursue her, and one captures her heart. But this calming respite ends suddenly, leaving in its wake a murder, a rape charge, a suicide and a helpless child. Nearly nineteen years later, a cache of documents regarding Maureen English -- abused, accused and imprisoned -- are given to her daughter by the journalist who made her name reporting the case. The truth should lie within them, but the papers raise far more questions than they answer ...

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Testimony / Anita Shreve. - Wydanie 2. - London : Abacus, 2009. - 307 stron ; 20 cm.

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Shreve, Anita (1946- )

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Internaty Bliskie związki międzyludzkie Skandale i sensacje Stany Zjednoczone (USA)

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Powieść obyczajowa Thriller

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal breaks. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on camera. A Pandora's box of revelations, the graphic images trigger a chorus of voices - those of the men, women, teenagers and parents involved in the scandal - testimonies that detail the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment. a gripping emotional drama with the pace of a thriller, Anita Shreve's Testimony explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, and how our best intentions can all too easily lead to our worst transgressions.

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The Weight of Water / Anita Shreve. - Wydanie 20. - London : Abacus, 2014. - [4], 246, [2] strony ; 20 cm.

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Shreve, Anita (1946- ).

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Język angielski New Hampshire (Stany Zjednoczone ; stan).

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On Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, more than a century ago, two Norwegian immigrant women were brutally murdered. A third woman survived by hiding in a cave until dawn. In 1995, Jean, a photographer, is sent on an assignment to shoot a photo essay about the legendary crime. Taking her extended family with her, Jean stays in a sailboat anchored off the coast, and finds herself gradually becoming more and more engrossed in the bay's mysterious and gruesome past. Wandering into a library one day, she unearths letters written by Maren, the sole survivor of the murder spree. Jean's fear of losing all that she cares about is reflected in Maren's poignant tale of love and loss, and her obsession with the ancient story drives her to wild impulsive action -- with unrecoverable consequences.

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Spies : The Epic Intelligence War between East and West / Calder Walton. - London : Abacus, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2023. - 625 stron ; 24 cm.

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Walton, Calder.

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Szpiegostwo Zimna wojna Walka informacyjna Polityka międzynarodowa Stosunki międzynarodowe Służby specjalne Wschód i Zachód Wybory prezydenckie w Stanach Zjednoczonych (2016) ZSRR Rosja Stany Zjednoczone (USA) Europa Chiny

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Historia Polityka, politologia, administracja publiczna Bezpieczeństwo i wojskowość

Zawiera indeks (s. 589-625).

Espionage, election meddling, disinformation, assassinations, subversion, and sabotage - all atract headlines today about Putin's dictatorship. But they are far from new. The West has a long-term Russia problem, not a Putin problem. "Spies" mines hitherto secret archives and exclusive interviews with former agents to tell the history of the war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage dark arts were the Kremlin's means to equalise the imbalance of arms between East and West before, during and after the Cold War. There was nothing 'unprecedented' about Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. It was business as usual, new means for old ends. The Cold War started long before 1945. Western powers gradually fought back after the Second World War, mounting their own shadow war, deploying propaganda, recruiting intelligence networks and pioneering new spy technologies against the Soviet Union. This book offers an inspiring, engrossing story of the best and worst of mankind: bravery and honour, treachery and betrayal. The narrative shifts across continents and decades, from the freezing streets of St. Petersburg in 1917 to the bloody beaches of Normandy; from coups in faraway lands to present-day Moscow, where troll farms weaponise social media against Western democracies. This fresh reading of history makes this volume a unique and essential addition to the story of the unrolling conflict between Russia, China and the West that will dominate the twenty-first century.

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The Marriage Bureau for Rich People / Farahad Zama. - London : Abacus, 2008. - X, 276 s. ; 20 cm.

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Zama, Farahad.

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Marriage Bureau for Rich People / Farahad Zama ; 1

What does somebody with a wealth of common sense do if retirement palls? Why, open a marriage bureau, of course. And soon Mr Ali, from beautiful Vizag in South India, sees his new business flourish as the indomitable Mrs Ali and able assistant Aruna look on with careful eyes. But although many clients go away happy, problems lurk behind the scenes as Aruna nurses a heart-rending secret; while Mr Ali cannot see that he rarely follows the sage advice he so freely dishes out to others. And when love comes calling for Aruna, an impossible dilemma looms... A colourful coastal town and contemporary marriage bureau prove a perfect backdrop for a splendid array of characters making sense of all sorts of pride and prejudice - and the ways in which true love won't quite let go - in this witty and big-hearted debut novel.

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