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by Abbi Waxman
Three years after her husband died in a car accident, Lilian Girvan is holding it together in Los Angeles for her two young daughters, mostly. When her job as an illustrator sends her to a Saturday vegetable-gardening class, she finds herself among a mismatched group of beginners and a patient instructor named Edward. Funny, frank and full of heart.
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TranslatedContemporary
Hiro Arikawa
Satoru and his cat Nana set off across Japan in a silver van, visiting old friends one by one in search of someone who could give Nana a home. Told partly by Nana himself, with a former stray's dry opinion of everyone, it is a gentle road trip that slowly reveals why the journey matters so much.
ContemporaryLiterary
India Knight
Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love, moved to the present day. Marooned in a rambling Norfolk farmhouse with her gloriously eccentric family and no phone signal, teenage Linda Radlett longs for love and goes looking for it in London, with her cousin Fran watching every misstep. Sharp, funny and fond of everyone in it.
ContemporaryRomance
Sophie Kinsella
Becky Bloomwood writes about saving money for a London financial magazine, and spends her own faster than she can earn it. As the letters from her bank pile up unopened, she tries cutting back, then making more, and gets nowhere with either. The first Shopaholic book, a bright, giddy comedy that is kinder to its heroine than she is to her credit card.
