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| "Playing Big : A practical guide for brilliant women like you" |
| "'For anyone who feels they're being held back in their career this is the book for you' Marie ClaireWHEN WOMEN PLAY BIG WE MAKE THINGS HAPPENFive years ago Tara Mohr began to see a pattern in her work as an expert in leadership women with tremendous talent ideas and aspiration were not recognising their own brilliance They felt that they were playing small' in their lives and careers and wanted to play bigger' but didn't know how And so Tara devised a step-by-step programme for playing big from the inside out this book is the result"
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| "The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club" |
| "'If you loved Under the Tuscan Sun you'll love this' Red Magazine Every week on a Thursday evening a group of four rural Italian women gather in an old stone house in the hills above Italy's Orvieto There - along with their friend Marlena - they cook together sit down to a beautiful supper drink their beloved local wines and talk Surrounded by candle light good food and friendship the four women tell Marlena their evocative life stories and of cherished ingredients and recipes whose secrets have been passed down through generations"
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| "The House by the Lake" |
| "SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA passionate memoir' Neil MacGregorA superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in and lost by five different families A remarkable book' Tom HollandPersonal and panoramic heart-wrenching yet uplifting this is history at its most alive' AD Miller In 2013 Thomas Harding returned to his grandmother's house on the outskirts of Berlin which she had been forced to leave when the Nazis swept to power What was once her soul place' now stood empty and derelict A concrete footpath cut through the garden marking where the Berlin Wall had stood for nearly three decades In a bid to save the house from demolition Thomas began to unearth the history of the five families who had lived there a nobleman farmer a prosperous Jewish family a renowned Nazi composer a widow and her children and a Stasi informant Discovering stories of domestic joy and contentment of terrible grief and tragedy and of a hatred handed down through the generations a history of twentieth century Germany and the story of a nation emerged"
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| "Kill Your Friends" |
| "SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NICHOLAS HOULT ED SKREIN AND JAMES CORDEN Meet Steven Stelfox London 1997 New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change Stelfox must take the notion of cut throat business practices to murderous new levels in a desperate attempt to salvage his career"
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| "The Second Coming" |
| "God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good - so he takes a holiday In Heaven-time this is just a week's fishing trip but on Earth several hundred years go by When God returns he finds all hell has broken loose world wars holocausts famine capitalism and fucking Christians everywhere' There's only one thing for it They're sending the kid back JC reborn is a struggling musician in New York City trying to teach the one true commandment Be Nice! His best chance to win hearts and minds is to enter American Pop Star But the number one show in America is the unholy creation of a record executive who's more than a match for the Son of God Steven Stelfox"
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| "Romantic Outlaws : The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley" |
| "This year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein Romantic Outlaws tells the story of the woman behind the novel and her extraordinary mother Mary Wollstonecraft AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through biography beautifully weaving their narratives for the first time' Amanda ForemanEnglish feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and author Mary Shelley were mother and daughter yet these two extraordinary women never knew one another Nevertheless their passionate and pioneering lives remained closely intertwined their choices dreams and tragedies eerily similar Both women became famous writers and wrote books that changed literary history had passionate relationships with several men were single mothers out of wedlock; both lived in exile fought for their position in society and interrogated ideas of how we should live Romantic Outlaws takes the reader on a vivid journey across revolutionary France and Victorian England to explore in this ground-breaking dual biography of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the author who wrote Frankenstein - mother and daughter - a pair of visionary women who should have shared a life but who instead share a powerful literary and feminist legacy"
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| "Fates and Furies" |
| "'A really powerful novel' President ObamaAMAZONCOM's 2015 BEST BOOK OF THE YEARNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEARA FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDEvery story has two sides Every relationship has two perspectives And sometimes it turns out the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets"
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| "Spill Simmer Falter Wither" |
| "SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2016WINNER OF THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015 WINNER OF THE GEOFFREY FABER MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FICTIONYou find me on a Tuesday on my Tuesday trip to town A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS & WITHOUT CHILDREN UNDER FOUR A misfit man finds a misfit dog Ray aged fifty-seven too old for starting over too young for giving up' and One Eye a vicious little bugger smaller than expected a good ratter Both are accustomed to being alone unloved outcast - but they quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts As spring turns to summer their relationship grows and intensifies until a savage act forces them to abandon the precarious life they'd established and take to the road Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a wholly different kind of love story a devastating portrait of loneliness loss and friendship and of the scars that are more than skin-deep Written with tremendous empathy and insight in lyrical language that surprises and delights this is an extraordinary and heartbreaking debut by a major new talent"
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| "A Girl in Exile" |
| "When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa's latest book in her possession the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee Unable to guess what transgression he has committed Rudian goes fearfully to meet his interrogators He has never met the girl in question but he remembers signing the book As the influence of a paranoid regime steals up on him Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to the mysterious girl to whom he wrote the dedication - to Linda B"
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| "Shylock is My Name : The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)" |
| "A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life Who is this guy Dad? What is he doing here?' With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire's Golden Triangle he invites him back to his house It's the beginning of a remarkable friendship Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision He writes like a dream' Evening Standard'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday"
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| "Eminent Hipsters" |
| "In Eminent Hipsters musician and songwriter Donald Fagen best known as the co-founder of the rock band Steely Dan presents an autobiographical portrait that touches on everything from the cultural figures that mattered the most to him as a teenager to his years in the late 1960s at Bard College to a hilarious account of a recent tour he made with Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald Fagen begins by introducing the &39;eminent hipsters&39; that spoke to him as he was growing up (and desperately yearning to be hip) in suburban New Jersey in the late 1950s and early 1960s The figures who influenced him most were not the typical ones – Miles Davis say or Jack Kerouac – but rather people like Jean Shepherd whose manic acidic nightly radio broadcasts out of WOR-Radio had a tough realism about life and ‘enthralled a generation of alienated young people’; Henry Mancini whose chilled-out nourish soundtracks especially to films by Blake Edwards utilised the unconventional spare instrumentation associated with the cool jazz school; and Mort Fega the laid back knowledgeable all night jazz man at WEVD who was like ‘the cool uncle you always wished you had’ He writes of how growing up as a Cold War baby one of his primary doors of escape became reading science fiction by such authors as Philip K Dick and of his regular trips into New York City to hear jazz Other emblematic musical heroes Fagen writes about include Ray Charles Ike Turner and the Boswell Sisters a trio from the 1920s and 30s whose subversive musical genius included trick phrasing and way out harmony ‘Class of ’69’ recounts Fagen’s colourful tumultuous years at Bard College the progressive university north of New York City that attracted a strange mix of applicants including ‘desperate suburban misfits with impressive verbal skills but appalling high school records’ (like himself) It was at Bard that Fagen first met Walter Becker with whom he would later form Steely Dan The final section of the book ‘With the Dukes of September’ offers a day-by-day account of a tour Fagen undertook last summer across America with Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald performing a programme of old R&B and soul tunes as well as some of each of their own hits Told in a weary cranky occasionally biting and always entertaining voice Fagen brings to life the ups and downs and various indignities and anxieties of being on the road – The Dukes were an admittedly ‘low-rent operation’ compared to a Steely Dan tour – as well as communicating the challenges and joy of playing every night to a different crowd in a different city"
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| "Flaneuse : Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London" |
| "Shortlisted for the PENDiamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssaySelected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times Guardian New Statesman Observer The Millions and Emerald Street'Flaneuse flanne-euhze noun from the French Feminine form of flaneur flanne-euhr an idler a dawdling observer usually found in cities That is an imaginary definition'If the word flaneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire boulevards and bohemia - then what exactly is a flaneuse? In this gloriously provocative and celebratory book Lauren Elkin defines her as a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk' Part cultural meander part memoir Flaneuse traces the relationship between the city and creativity through a journey that begins in New York and moves us to Paris via Venice Tokyo and London exploring along the way the paths taken by the flaneuses who have lived and walked in those cities From nineteenth-century novelist George Sand to artist Sophie Calle from war correspondent Martha Gellhorn to film-maker Agnes Varda Flaneuse considers what is at stake when a certain kind of light-footed woman encounters the city and changes her life one step at a time"
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| "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" |
| "WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014Forever after there were for them only two sorts of men the men who were on the Line and the rest of humanity who were not In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation from cholera from beatings he receives a letter that will change his life forever This is a story about the many forms of love and death of war and truth as one man comes of age prospers only to discover all that he has lost"
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| "All That Man is : Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016" |
| "SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZENine men Each of them at a different stage of life each of them away from home and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague beside a Belgian motorway in a cheap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive here and now Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are - ludicrous and inarticulate shocking and despicable; vital pitiable hilarious and full of heartfelt longing And as the years chase them down the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood"
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| "Lying Under the Apple Tree" |
| "Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being as she descends time and again headlamp on full beam pickaxe and butter-knife at the ready'The TimesSpanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight Beautifully observed and remarkably crafted written with emotion and empathy these stories are nothing short of perfection A masterclass in the genre from an author who deservedly lays claim to being one of the major fiction writers of our time"
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| "Blood on Snow Paperback" |
| "OVER 33 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDEOlav lives the lonely life of a fixer When you ‘fix’ people for a living – terminally – it’s hard to get close to anyone Now he’s finally met the woman of his dreams But there are two problems She’s his boss’s wife And Olav’s just been hired to kill her From the bestselling author of BAFTA-nominated Headhunters comes Jo Nesbo’s Blood on Snow"
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| "Idaho Paperback / softback" |
| "Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas PrizeOne hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood Jenny the mother is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet Wade the father does the stacking The two daughters June and May aged nine and six drink lemonade swat away horseflies bicker sing snatches of songs as they while away the time But then something unimaginably shocking happens an act so extreme it will scatter the family in every different direction"
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| Hag-Seed |
| "LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017Selected as a Book of the Year - Observer Sunday Times Times Guardian New Statesman i magazine Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival His productions have amazed and confounded Now he's staging a Tempest like no other It will boost his reputation It will heal emotional wounds Or that was the plan Instead after an act of unforeseen treachery Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter Miranda Also brewing revenge After twelve years revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison Here Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him It's magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall?"
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| "14th Deadly Sin : (Women's Murder Club 14)" |
| "A new terror is sweeping the streets of San Francisco And the killers look a lot like cops As Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates whether the perpetrators are brilliant impostors or police officers gone rogue she receives a chilling warning to back off On the other side of the city an innocent woman is murdered in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses But there are no clues and no apparent motive With killers in disguise a maniac murderer on the loose and danger getting ever closer to Lindsay's door could this be one case too many for the Women's Murder Club?"
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| "The Second Sex (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID&39;Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex&39; GuardianSimone de Beauvoir famously wrote &39;One is not born but rather becomes a woman&39; In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity Liberation she argues entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes and crucially in achieving economic independence Drawing on sociology anthropology and biology The Second Sex is as important and relevant today as when it was first published in 1949"
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| "The Beauty Myth : How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women" |
| "In the struggle for women's equality there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty The myth of female beauty challenges every woman every day of her life Naomi Wolf exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function today in the home and at work in literature and the media in relationships between men and women between women and women With pertinent and intelligent examples she confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession"
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| "The Wizard of Oz" |
| "'The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick' When a tornado crashes through Kansas City Dorothy and her dog Toto are whisked far away over the rainbow to a strange land called Oz How will they ever get home? And what is at the end of the yellow brick road? Plucky Dorothy and Toto embark on a magical adventure to search for the Wizard of Oz and along the way encounter new friends the Tin Woodman the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion Includes exclusive material In the Backstory you can take the quiz and find out how much you really know about The Wizard of Oz!Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
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| "Lost Horizon" |
| "Flying out of India a light aircraft is hi-jacked and flown into the high Tibetan Himalayas The few passengers on board anxiously await their fate among them Conway a talented British consul But on landing they are unexpectedly conducted to a remote valley a legendary paradise of peace and beauty known as Shangri-La Have they been kidnapped? Can they escape? And do they even want to? From the author of Goodbye Mr Chips this is the epic adventure story of literature's most entrancing utopia and one of our most enduring literary mysteries"
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| "Middle School: Ultimate Showdown : (Middle School 5)" |
| "Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck Lauren Graham Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca Readers get a chance to participate in James Patterson's wildly successful Middle School series in this interactive book featuring more than 80 hilarious anecdotes from dueling siblings Rafe and Georgia Khatchadorian - plus dozens of fun-filled activities!The Khatchadorian kids are an opinionated duo and as readers of the Middle School stories know they don't exactly see eye to eye But when wild-card Rafe and mostly-straight-laced Georgia go at it the only thing more fun than their ranting is getting to join in! Their back-and-forth banter on a range of topics - from bullying to cafeteria food to school dress codes - introduces more than 40 writing and drawing prompts and other games along with room for readers to share their own points of view (Includes over 200 illustrations)"
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| "Middle School: Save Rafe! : (Middle School 6)" |
| "Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck Lauren Graham Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca After a rough summer Rafe is heading back to the dreaded Hills Village Middle School the site of the very worst years of his life And as if that's not bad enough Rafe's learned that he's going to be held back a year unless he can prove himself on an outdoor survival excursion - complete with dangerous white-water rafting dizzying rock climbing and military style counsellors Rafe and the rest of the pack of 'delinquent' trainees are forced to cooperate as they prepare for the final test a solo excursion in the deep woods Can Rafe come out of the experience in one piece? And if he does will anyone recognise him as the kid they once knew?"
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| "Middle School: Just My Rotten Luck : (Middle School 7)" |
| "Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck Lauren Graham Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca In this seventh Middle School episode Rafe heads back to the place his misadventures began the dreaded Hills Village Middle School where he's now being forced to take 'special' classes He also finds himself joining the school's football team - alongside his main tormenter Miller the Killer!But Rafe has grand plans for a better year First he decides to start a super-secret art project that's sure to rock the school Then if Rafe manages to make a play to save his team he might have to deal with something completely new popularity!"
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| "Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life : (Middle School 1)" |
| "Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck Lauren Graham Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix Luckily he's got an ace plan for the best year ever if he can pull it off With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct Chewing gum in class - 5000 points! Running in the hallway - 10000 points! Pulling the fire alarm - 50000 points! But when Rafe's game starts to catch up with him he'll have to decide if winning is all that matters or if he's finally ready to face the rules bullies and truths he's been avoiding"
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| "The Past" |
| "'Few writers give me such consistent pleasure' Zadie SmithFour siblings meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long hot summer weeks But under the idyllic surface lie shattering tensions Roland has come with his new wife and his sisters don't like her Fran has brought her children who soon uncover an ugly secret in a ruined cottage in the woods Alice has invited Kasim an outsider who makes plans to seduce Roland's teenage daughter And Harriet the eldest finds her quiet self-possession ripped apart when passion erupts unexpectedly Over the course of the holiday a familiar way of life falls apart forever 'Exquisite' The Times 'Wonderful' Guardian 'Magnificent' Sunday Times"
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| "A Buzz in the Meadow" |
| "From the author of the Samuel Johnson Prize-shortlisted Sunday Times bestseller A Sting in the TaleIn 2003 Dave Goulson bought a derelict farm in the heart of rural France together with 33 acres of surrounding meadow Over the course of a decade he created a place for his beloved bumblebees to thrive along with myriad insects of every kind In this book you will learn how a deathwatch beetle finds its mate about the importance of houseflies why butterflies have spots on their wings about dragonfly sex bed-bugs and wasps But it is also a wake-up call urging us to cherish and protect life on earth in all its forms A Buzz in the Meadow is a captivating look at our natural world and a call to arms for nature-lovers everywhere Glorious' The Times Captivating' Independent"
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| "It's All in Your Head : Stories from the Frontline of Psychosomatic Illness" |
| "WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2016 Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen What seemed to be a urinary infection became joint pain then life-threatening appendicitis After a routine operation Pauline lost all the strength in her legs Shortly afterwards convulsions started But Pauline's tests are normal her symptoms seem to have no physical cause whatsoever This may be an extreme case but Pauline is not alone As many as a third of people visiting their GP have symptoms that are medically unexplained In most an emotional root is suspected which is often the last thing a patient wants to hear and a doctor to say We accept our hearts can flutter with excitement and our brows can sweat with nerves but on this journey into the very real world of psychosomatic illness Suzanne O'Sullivan finds the secrets we are all capable of keeping from ourselves"
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