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The Early Birds
Laurie Graham
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Description for The Early Birds
Hardcover. A poignant follow-up to The Future Homemakers of America - warm-hearted and sparklingly witty women's fiction for fans of The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Fannie Flagg and Anne Tyler Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 156. .
'Why is Laurie Graham not carried on people's shoulders through cheering crowds? Her books are brilliant!' MARIAN KEYES The Early Birds is the feel-good and funny follow-up to The Future Homemakers of America that proves that no matter what life throws at you, great friends and regular cocktails will always see you through. Peggy, the southern belle. Kath, the pragmatist with the only Norfolk accent in New York state. Gayle, the preacher with healing hands. Mrs Colonel Audrey Rudman, forever keeping up the standards of the Officers' Wives Club. Lois, who's never had a thought she didn't voice. Loudly. Their menfolk may be long retired, but once a US Air Force wife, always an Air Force wife, and the bonds of friendship forged in base after military base are still going strong fifty years later. Time is rendering its Accounts Payable for all of them now: hip replacements, eye problems, forgetfulness and departures. In this hymn to lifelong female friendship, Peggy soldiers on through new upheavals, including her ex-husband Vern's Alzheimer's diagnosis, the death of one of her nearest and dearest, a life-changing house move and the world-shattering events of 9/11 with the help of her sharp-tongued, often eccentric, but always loyal group of friends.
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784297916
SKU
V9781784297916
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-1
About Laurie Graham
Laurie Graham is a former Daily Telegraph columnist and contributing editor of She magazine. The author of several acclaimed novels, most recently The Grand Duchess of Nowhere and The Night in Question (2015), Laurie lives in Dublin. Visit her website at www.lauriegraham.com
Reviews for The Early Birds
One of my favourite writers
Wendy Holden A delightfully smart and sophisticated historical novelist
Sunday Times
Laugh-out-loud funny; intelligent; moving; has more delicious roll-off-the-tongue one-liners than Seinfeld. One of those books you buy six copies of to send to all your old friends
Scotsman on The Future Homemakers of America
This novel crackles with energy and snappy American dialogue. Laurie Graham conjures up five tough, funny, mouthy women, thrown together at an American airbase in Norfolk . . . Graham has pulled off an absolute triumph; the voice of her sassy narrator, the redoubtable Peggy, never falters as she unfolds 40 years of friendship
Daily Mail on The Future Homemakers of America
Superlative. The writing sparkles from first to last
Sunday Telegraph on The Future Homemakers of America
She has wit and insight to match Nick Hornby, and the entertainment value of Helen Fielding, as well as depth . . . It amounts to a picture of the way women's lives have changed, without ever sacrificing the particular to the generalisation
Independent on The Future Homemakers of America
This wonderful book about friendship is full of warmth, wit and winning characters
Daily Mail
Please do me a personal favour and buy (and read!) both these books [Early Birds and Future Homemakers of America]. You will not regret it
Sarra Manning
Red magazine
Wendy Holden A delightfully smart and sophisticated historical novelist
Sunday Times
Laugh-out-loud funny; intelligent; moving; has more delicious roll-off-the-tongue one-liners than Seinfeld. One of those books you buy six copies of to send to all your old friends
Scotsman on The Future Homemakers of America
This novel crackles with energy and snappy American dialogue. Laurie Graham conjures up five tough, funny, mouthy women, thrown together at an American airbase in Norfolk . . . Graham has pulled off an absolute triumph; the voice of her sassy narrator, the redoubtable Peggy, never falters as she unfolds 40 years of friendship
Daily Mail on The Future Homemakers of America
Superlative. The writing sparkles from first to last
Sunday Telegraph on The Future Homemakers of America
She has wit and insight to match Nick Hornby, and the entertainment value of Helen Fielding, as well as depth . . . It amounts to a picture of the way women's lives have changed, without ever sacrificing the particular to the generalisation
Independent on The Future Homemakers of America
This wonderful book about friendship is full of warmth, wit and winning characters
Daily Mail
Please do me a personal favour and buy (and read!) both these books [Early Birds and Future Homemakers of America]. You will not regret it
Sarra Manning
Red magazine