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poppy

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  1. I've really enjoyed reading Salley Vicker's books which include Mr Golightly's Holiday, The Other Side of You, Miss Garnet's Angel and Dancing Backwards. I found her a very intelligent and intuitive writer. She trained as a Jungian psychotherapist which I'm sure has given her a lot of insight into human nature.

    Another older writer I've always enjoyed is Mary Wesley. Her characters are usually rather bohemian and unconventional, much like she was.

  2. I tend to read light, funny books when I'm not in a good head space. Nothing challenging or angst ridden. I just want to escape into a safe, happy place so authors like PG Wodehouse (Jeeves and Wooster etc) fit the bill. If you like animals Gerald Durrell's books are wonderfully funny, particularly his Corfu trilogy 'My Family and Other Animals' and another funny writer, where animais feature strongly, Joyce Fussey.
    I hope you can find some peace in your situation :friends0:

  3. was a HUGE fan of Emmerdale and had specially moved from Manchester  to Yorkshire in the hope of being hired as an extra. He hung round the set day and night practicing. Even his sleep was interspersed with mutterings of  'by 'eck' and 'where thar's muck, thar's brass' causing his long-suffering wife to .................

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