Edition |
Large print edition. |
Description |
451 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. |
Physical Medium |
large print rdafs |
Series |
Thorndike press large print basic
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Summary |
"Eve expected Sally to come festooned with suitcases and overnight bags packed with everything she owned, but she was wrong. She arrived on foot, with a rucksack and a carrier bag. "I just walked away," she said, climbing on to the boat. Eve knew what she meant. Meet Eve, who has left her thirty-year career to become a Free Spirit; Sally, who has waved goodbye to her indifferent husband and two grown-up children; and Anastasia, a defiantly independent narrowboat-dweller, who is suddenly landlocked and vulnerable. Before they quite know what they've done, Sally and Eve agree to drive Anastasia's narrowboat on a journey through the canals of England, as she awaits a life-saving operation. As they glide gently - and not so gently - through the countryside, the eccentricities and challenges of narrowboat life draw them inexorably together, and a tender and unforgettable story unfolds. At summer's end, all three women must decide whether to return to the lives they left behind, or forge a new path forward. Candid, hilarious, and uplifting, Anne Youngson's The Narrowboat Summer is a celebration of the power of friendship and new experiences to change one's life, at any age"-- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Female friendship -- Fiction.
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Narrowboats -- Fiction.
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England -- Fiction.
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Large type books.
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Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
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Genre/Form |
Road fiction.
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Novels.
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ISBN |
9781432888053 (large print) (hardcover) |
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1432888056 (large print) (hardcover) |
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