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Other People Manage

'Axc2xa0quietly devastating novelxc2xa0about our failings and how we cope' Patrick Gale

Itxe2x80x99s Minneapolis in the 1970s, and two women meet in the Women's Coffeehouse. Marge is a bus driver, and Peg is training to be a psychotherapist.

Over the next twenty years, they stay together, through the challenges any couple faces and some that no one expects. Then one day things change, and Marge has to work out what shexe2x80x99s left with xe2x80x93 and if she still belongs to the family she's adopted as her own.

Other People Manage is a novel about hard-earned but everyday love. It's about family and it's about loss. It's the kind of novel that only someone who has lived enough of life could write - frequently funny, at times almost unbearably moving, but above all extraordinarily wise.

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Other People Manage

'Axc2xa0quietly devastating novelxc2xa0about our failings and how we cope' Patrick Gale

Itxe2x80x99s Minneapolis in the 1970s, and two women meet in the Women's Coffeehouse. Marge is a bus driver, and Peg is training to be a psychotherapist.

Over the next twenty years, they stay together, through the challenges any couple faces and some that no one expects. Then one day things change, and Marge has to work out what shexe2x80x99s left with xe2x80x93 and if she still belongs to the family she's adopted as her own.

Other People Manage is a novel about hard-earned but everyday love. It's about family and it's about loss. It's the kind of novel that only someone who has lived enough of life could write - frequently funny, at times almost unbearably moving, but above all extraordinarily wise.

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Other People Manage

Other People Manage

by Ellen Hawley
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Other People Manage

by Ellen Hawley

Overview

'Axc2xa0quietly devastating novelxc2xa0about our failings and how we cope' Patrick Gale

Itxe2x80x99s Minneapolis in the 1970s, and two women meet in the Women's Coffeehouse. Marge is a bus driver, and Peg is training to be a psychotherapist.

Over the next twenty years, they stay together, through the challenges any couple faces and some that no one expects. Then one day things change, and Marge has to work out what shexe2x80x99s left with xe2x80x93 and if she still belongs to the family she's adopted as her own.

Other People Manage is a novel about hard-earned but everyday love. It's about family and it's about loss. It's the kind of novel that only someone who has lived enough of life could write - frequently funny, at times almost unbearably moving, but above all extraordinarily wise.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781800750982
Publisher: Swift Press
Publication date: 04/14/2022
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 557 KB

About the Author

Ellen Hawley is an American writer who has lived in Cornwall for the last fifteen years. Other People Manage is her first novel to be published in the UK.


Ellen Hawley is an American writer who has lived in Cornwall for the past fifteen years. Other People Manage is her first novel to be published in the UK.

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