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Gill Paul
Goodreads Author
Born
Glasgow, The United Kingdom
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April 2012
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The Secret Wife
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2016
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4 editions
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Jackie and Maria: A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas
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2020
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24 editions
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Another Woman's Husband
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2017
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23 editions
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Women & Children First
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2012
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12 editions
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The Lost Daughter
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2018
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25 editions
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No Place For A Lady: A sweeping wartime romance full of courage and passion
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2015
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9 editions
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The Collector's Daughter
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2021
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A Beautiful Rival: A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden
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2023
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8 editions
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The Affair
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2013
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12 editions
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The Manhattan Girls
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2022
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| Lyndsy Spence takes the unusual step of starting this extraordinary biography in 1953, when Vivien Leigh was about to turn forty and had already played the roles for which she is best remembered, when her glittering celebrity marriage to Laurence Oli ...more | |
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| When this book came to mind recently, I realized I still had the original 1978 paperback on my bookshelves, with yellowed pages and battered spine. It says on the front cover "This novel changes lives" and I remember that it definitely changed mine. ...more | |
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| Ann Patchett is one of my go-to authors for insightful stories about the nuances of family life. She builds characters I feel I know then lets them interact in emotionally plausible and relatable ways. In this instance our narrator is Lara, a mother ...more | |
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| I very seldom cry over novels, but I found myself welling up every few chapters of this one, and would probably have bawled had I not been on a train. Marianne's voice took me back to my own teenage self and triggered the intensity of the emotions of ...more | |
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| I very seldom cry over novels, but I found myself welling up every few chapters of this one, and would probably have bawled had I not been on a train. Marianne's voice took me back to my own teenage self and triggered the intensity of the emotions of ...more | |
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| What an incredibly brave venture – to take a well-known classic like 1984 and write the story from the point of view of Winston Smith's lover, Julia! George Orwell's estate gave permission, so they had faith in this author, but it was a tall order to ...more | |
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| I would have bought Eleni Kyriacou's second novel regardless of the subject, because I loved her first – She Came to Stay – but when I heard the new one was based on the true story of a murder that took place round the corner from me in 1954, I grabb ...more | |
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Gill Paul
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Best Historical Fiction
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2023 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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“You Jump, I jump, remember
-Kate Winslet Titanic”
― Titanic Love Stories: The True Stories of 13 Honeymoon Couples Who Sailed on the Titanic
-Kate Winslet Titanic”
― Titanic Love Stories: The True Stories of 13 Honeymoon Couples Who Sailed on the Titanic
“London and New York, and the hire car’s Sat Nav told her she had driven 252 miles since leaving the airport. A whole ocean and half a state lay between her and Tom. She should have been upset but instead she felt numb. Back in the UK it was four-thirty on a Sunday afternoon and she wondered what Tom was doing, then grimaced as she pictured him pottering around the house in his jogging bottoms and t-shirt. He would no doubt have called her closest friends, all innocence, asking if they knew where she was. How long would it take him to work out she had flown to America to look for the lakeside cabin she’d inherited from her great-”
― The Secret Wife
― The Secret Wife
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