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At her eccentric-professor employer's prompting, Megs, a housekeeper and a single mother of three, takes a job singing at a blues club and starts a secret affair, begins to speak her mind, stand up for herself, and live her life in color. Original.
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"Isla Dewar writes with heartbreaking honesty and genuine compassion... Dewar's Megs is a survivor who had me rooting for her from page one."-Carrie Karasyov, author of THE INFIDELITY PACT on "Giving Up On Ordinary""Isla Dewar is a warm-hearted and gifted storyteller. GIVING UP ON ORDINARY will make you laugh, cry, and fall in love with her characters."-Catherine Ryan Hyde, bestselling author of PAY IT FORWARD, CHASING WINDMILLS and LOVE IN THE PRESENT TENSEon "Giving Up On Ordinary""Dewar's gift is to pull you into the minutiae of people's lives...few writers are so good at making the reader empathize." --Scotland on Sunday on "Giving Up On Ordinary""Crackling with wit, and shot through with sharp observations." --"Woman & Home" on "Giving Up On Ordinary""Dewar is an accessible storyteller with a wry sense of the comic." ---"Kirkus Reviews""Move over Maeve Binchy: there's a new writer on the block." ---"The Roanoke Times ""Dewar's funny, tragic, warm-hearted, life-af?r
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A poignant and moving novel from a bestselling Scottish author whose writing is deeply evocative and thoughtful
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- PublisherGriffin
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 031256161X
- ISBN 13 9780312561611
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages312
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