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1	Emma Brown more books like this by Clare Boylan add to wishlist From two novel fragments that Charlotte Brontë left behind at her death, Clare Boylan has constructed a novel about a girl--the eponymous Emma--with mysterious parentage whose life and adventures go beyond Brontë's usual milieu of mansion and schoolroom, taking her to the perilous London streets of 1851. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Bronte more books like this by Clare Boylan, Charlotte Bronte add to wishlist From two novel fragments that Charlotte Brontë left behind at her death, Clare Boylan has constructed a novel about a girl--the eponymous Emma--with mysterious parentage whose life and adventures go beyond Brontë's usual milieu of mansion and schoolroom, taking her to the perilous London streets of 1851. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Holy Pictures more books like this by Clare Boylan add to wishlist For Nan, on the threshold of puberty, and her younger sister Mary, innocence blends uneasily with the trials of convent life and a shadowy knowledge of the facts of life. For their mother, buffeted by the whims of her tyrannical, unreliable husband, the days take on an unreal, dreamlike quality. And while Nellie, the Dickensian maid with a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Room for a Single Lady more books like this by Clare Boylan add to wishlist To Eugene Rafferty, girls are like money - they have to be saved. Despite living in 1950s Dublin, his three daughters, Bridie, Kitty and Rose, seem doomed to a Victorian childhood. However, as fortunes decline the Rafferty's are forced to take in lodgers and these independent but eccentric outsiders introduce the girls to new experiences - sex and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Black Baby more books like this by Clare Boylan add to wishlist As a child Alice had paid the nuns half a crown to adopt a black baby from the mission in Africa - a baby that never appeared. Now a loveless spinster of sixty-seven, still yearning for a daughter, Alice's life is one of dull predictability, unbroken by the ritual visit from her middle-aged relatives. Then one evening Dinah storms into her home. ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
6	Collected Stories more books like this by Clare Boylan add to wishlist Focusing on the dilemmas of contemporary women and issues of responsibility and choice, Clare Boylan's writing has become a much-loved voice of contemporary fiction. Here, published in a single volume for the first time, are all three of her collections: A NAIL ON THE HEAD, CONCERNING VIRGINS and THAT BAD WOMAN. The stories are bewitching as they ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Agony and the Ego: 2the Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explained more books like this by Clare Boylan (Editor) add to wishlist Looks at the techniques, methods and philosophies of some of the leading writers of modern fiction as revealed in essays by and interviews with the authors. The book takes a look at the creative powers and techniques of writers such as William Boyd, Mary Wesley, Fay Weldon and Hilary Mantel. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $52.34!
8	Beloved Stranger more books like this by Clare Boylan add to wishlist Dick and Lily have been married forever, and life has been tame but good. Then, slowly, amiable Dick begins to lose his mind, eventually turning violent, and his family is forced to commit him to an institution. The consequences of his dementia, particularly for his wife and daughter, are vividly portrayed--partly, perhaps, because Claire Boylan's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	That Bad Woman: Short Stories by Clare Boylan add to wishlist A collection of 14 stories which focus on the preoccupation of women everywhere: the conflict between responsibility and choice, through which the most humdrum of lives becomes illuminated with the intensity of desire. Clare Boylan is the author of "Home Rule", "Holy Pictures" and "Black Baby". see all copies from $2.53! first editions
10	Concerning virgins : a collection of short stories by Clare Boylan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
11	That Bad Woman more books like this by Clare Boylan add to wishlist A collection of stories in which women are torn between responsibility and choice. "That Bad Woman" is the label given to Jude, who, realizing the transparency of her life and the indifference of her husband, makes changes to her appearance and lifestyle, to the disapproval of others. see all copies from $2.53!
12	The stolen child. more books like this by Clare Boylan add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! first editions
13	The literary companion to cats : an anthology of prose and poetry more books like this by Clare Boylan add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! new only from $43.75!
14	Holy pictures : a novel more books like this by Clare Boylan add to wishlist For fourteen-year old Nan and her younger sister Mary, the trials of convent life blend uneasily with their innocent yet peculiar home life, where the maid regales them with tales of a lurid past. But harsh reality is looming, a reality that in 1920s Dublin, is very shocking - and very adult. By the author of ROOM FOR A SINGLE LADY. see all copies from $4.19! first editions
15	Another Family Christmas: A Collection of Short Stories more books like this by Clare Boylan add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53!
16	11 Edward Street more books like this by Clare Boylan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Last resorts more books like this by Clare Boylan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
18	Home rule more books like this by Clare Boylan add to wishlist When aristocratic Englishwoman Elinore Dubois married a handsome young Irishman, her mother warned her that he would give her ten children and leave her destitute. In fact there are only nine Devlins, but in a two-roomed Dublin tenement, Elinore vents her disappointment on her seven daughters and in particular, on beautiful Daisy, whose ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $74.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
19	Concerning virgins. by Clare Boylan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20	A nail on the head by Clare Boylan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21 view cover	Literary companion to cats more books like this by Clare Boylan add to wishlist This anthology records 25 centuries of cat loving and hate, in letters, journals, stories and verse from the world's most popular to the world's least likely cat commentators: from T.S. Eliot to T.E. Lawrence, from Aristotle to Amis, from Diodorus to Dickens, from Hemingway to Seamus Heaney. It is a volume aimed at cat lovers and cat sceptics ... see all copies from $4.99! first editions

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