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It is almost a year since Sean and Thea met and it's been a roller-coaster ride: they're getting married on Christmas Day! Neither Thea or Sean want a big fuss - a simple wedding, with Christmas lights and just a few sprigs of mistletoe for decoration is all they need. But before they know it, things begin to get complicated.

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To make matters worse, Beth has insisted on bringing along their sixteen-year-old daughter Delilah, who's been ill and needs some rest and sunshine. Not so ill, however, that she can't look around for some entertainment.

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She sooo wants a home to come home to.

Ilex, her brother, is trying to upgrade his flat and marry his smart girlfriend Manda. He'd like some immediate equity.

Clover, the elder sister, has plans that involve a bijou second home in France.

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After twenty years of marriage, Nina had offloaded serial philanderer Joe and was happy enough, thank you, coping alone with their two demanding daughters and her own hectic life. But babies, Joe told Nina, were what he did with her: a remark that Nina found oddly unsettling...

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With a stroppy teenage daughter, a demanding mother, and siblings who want to control her life for her, where is she going to turn

Readers love Judy Astley:
"Warm, funny and unerringly true to life" Katie Fforde
"Irresistible" Daily Mail
"An enjoyable light read" Sunday Mirror

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It's twenty years since Miranda, then sixteen, holidayed in Cornwall and her life changed forever. Now she's back again - with her mother Clare and the ashes of her stepfather Jack, whose wish was to be scattered on the sea overlooked by their one-time holiday home.

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Every July, the lucky owners of Cornish holiday homes set off for their annual break. They close up their desirable semis in smartish London suburbs - having turned off the Aga and turned on the burglar alarm - and look forward to a carefree, restful, somehow more fulfilling summer. Clare is more than usually ready for her holiday.

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Have you ever wondered what your ex is up to

When Nell was a student, she and Patrick were a serious item. It's crisis time - and she makes two decisions:

First - she will take lessons in self-defence.
Second - she will try and find Patrick again.

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She's left with two teenage daughters and husband Matt - all of whom find themselves regularly featured in her popular and lighthearted newspaper column in which she conveys to her readers an enviably cheery muddle of family life.

Things become less rosy when Matt, after twenty years with the same firm, is made redundant.

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Sara's mother told her that she shouldn't marry Conrad - that the twenty-five-year age gap between them would tell in the end. Sara, teaching art at a local college, finds that she has plenty of male company - other people's husbands, ones she tells Conrad all about, who are just good friends to her.

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A social comedy by the author of "Just for the Summer". The illegal activities of unemployed teenagers on a London suburban council estate are giving cause for concern. There is also illegal activity among the residents of the desirable street nearby - but these crimes are more socially-acceptable.

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Now Jay lives happily with her architect husband and their three teenage children, running a successful cleaning company and trying to keep some kind of order on her disorderly household, while Delphine has long since disappeared to Australia with her second husband.

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Her latest boyfriend 'forgot' to tell her about his current wife, so she's single again.

Now, her ex-husband has turned up, wanting to sell the family home in which she and their two teenage children are happily living their lives.

Then Bella sees a chance to stay in the house and earn some money.

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Perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Milly Johnson and Trisha Ashley.

"Astley writes with humour and insight about the stresses and strains of family life" - THE TIMES
"A most absorbing and revealing read" - WOMAN'S WEEKLY
"Judy Astley's books are always a joy to read."

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Melanie finds herself single again after years of being one half of a couple. Her friends predict loneliness, frustration, disaster. Her parents are convinced she's a failure in life. But Melanie is overwhelmingly excited to be able to do her own thing n she plans a programme of behaving badly, after a lifetime of behaving properly.

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Theas parents decide to host a big family Christmas in a house by the sea even though they are, in fact, about to split up. Thea herself is newly single - her sister and brother are both settled, with children, homes and a future.