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Megs, a cleaning lady who brings up her children single-handed, argues with her mother and drinks her troubles away in a nightclub where she sings the blues. She is not happy and decides her life has to change.
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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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- PublisherHeadline Book Publishing
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0747218420
- ISBN 13 9780747218425
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages456
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