Jenny Colgan

1 month ago | piper.de | Jenny Colgan

PrologDer kleine Ort Carso im hohen Norden von Schottland kann kaum als Stadt bezeichnet werden, die Einwohner wären aber tödlich beleidigt, wenn man von einem Dorf sprechen würde. Schließlich gibt es dort sogar eine – winzige, aber doch waschechte – weiterführende Schule.

Dec 20, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jenny Colgan

I was always a gung-ho travelling mum. With a sailor for a husband, you kind of have to be if you want to see them more than once every two months. Antigua with a baby hurling all the way? No problem. Dubai with three under-fives? Bring it. It usually required pre-Maria Captain Von Trapp levels of whistling, but was generally worth it. Until I overreached. Christmas 2016: I had three small kids, a parent in hospital in Scotland and a husband working in France.

Dec 2, 2024 | msn.com | Jenny Colgan

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Dec 2, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jenny Colgan

The Wedding People by Alison Espach. The Wedding People Alison Espach, Phoenix Books as fun as this one are few and far between. Every room in a luxury American hotel is booked out for a ludicrously OTT wedding – except for one. Phoebe Stone is preparing for something quite different: she is going to end her life in the most expensive suite. When spoilt Lila, the bride to be, realises that someone is getting in the way of her perfect day, mayhem breaks loose – but not in the way you might expect.

Nov 25, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jenny Colgan

What on earth must it have been like, in Yorkshire in the 1930s, having both Barbara Taylor, as she then was, and Alan Bennett in the same nursery class? Whatever they had in the water back there, Barbara Taylor Bradford, like Jackie Collins and Shirley Conran, was one of the great transatlantic towering goddesses of late 20th-century fiction. Barbara Taylor Bradford on her 21st birthday.