Celia Imrie
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The beautiful town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and the plush red carpets of Cannes, is home to Theresa, Carol, William, Benjamin, and Sally: five retired expats who have pooled their resources to set up La Mosaïque, a divine little restaurant. But there is trouble in paradise: the friends are desperately struggling to make ends meet. It will take every bit of their talent and gumption to save La Mosaïque. With fussy customers,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 1912 Nice, after Marcela's cruel, controlling husband disappears with their two young sons, she does everything in her power to find them until an era-defining disaster strikes, making a reunion seem impossible, in a novel set against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic."--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Queenie Hennessy is told she has days to live she sends a letter on pink paper in which she bids goodbye to Harold Fry. It is a letter that inspires an unlikely walk, a cast of well-wishers, and the examination of many lives unlived. But there is a second letter, a longer, quieter more complicated letter which she will never send. It is this letter, the one we did not know about in [the author's previous book] The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold...
4) Sail away
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The phone hasn't rung for months. Suzy Marshall is discovering that work can be sluggish for an actress over sixty - even for the former star of a 1980s TV series. So when she's offered the plum role of Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest in Zurich, it seems like a godsend. Until, that is, the play is abruptly cancelled in suspicious circumstances, and Suzy is forced to take a job on a cruise ship to get home. Meanwhile Amanda Herbert...
Author
Language
English
Description
"My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, as well as an obsessive sister, young Gerald has an awful lot of natural history to observe. This richly detailed, informative and riotously funny memoir of eccentric family life is...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, fed up with babysitting her bossy daughter's obnoxious children, she sells her Highgate house and moves to the picture-perfect town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, just outside Nice." --
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Witty and enchanting, the second novel from the well-loved actress and author of Not Quite Nice follows the hilarious exploits of retired expats in the South of France. Somewhere on the French Riviera, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and Cannes' red carpets, lies the pretty town of Bellevue-Sur-Mer. Sheltered from the glittering melee, it is home to many an expat--including an enterprising team who plan to open a new restaurant. Snapping up a local...
11) Love Sarah
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Determined to fulfil her late mother's dream of opening a bakery in charming Notting Hill, nineteen-year-old Clarissa enlists the help of her mother's best friend Isabella and her eccentric estranged grandmother Mimi. These three generations of women will need to overcome grief, doubts, and differences to honor the memory of their beloved Sarah while embarking on a journey to establish a London store filled with love, hope, and colorful pastries...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Faith attempts to navigate the disillusion of her marriage, while taking on an emotionally wrenching legal medical case involving a gravely ill young boy. Into this mix, Faith is confronted by a terrible and long buried figure from her past: her mother." --
14) Calendar girls
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When Chris' best friend Annie loses her husband, Chris derives a scheme to memoralize him. The two women, along with some of their friends - all fiftysomething women - will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calender becomes hugely popular. Based on actual events, this story carefully balances the stories of several women as it follows the media explosion. A moving tale of loss, determination, and the perils of...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sam, a single mother and working actor with no filter, raises her three daughters, Max, Frankie, and Duke in Los Angeles. She also looks after her mother, Phil, an English expatriate with questionable faculties who lives across the street. Whether she's struggling to keep her daughters close or trying to push one of them out of the nest, Sam approaches every challenge with fierce love, raw honesty, and humor. At the end of the day, Sam's just trying...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On the eve of retirement, a judgmental middle-class snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate." --
17) Patrick Melrose
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Chronicling the hilarious highs and devastating lows of his tumultuous life, this blackly humorous drama follows Patrick from his childhood trauma at the hands of an abusive father and neglectful mother, to the peak of his heroin addiction, and his attempts to stay sober and support his family. --
18) Doctor Zhivago
Publisher
Acorn Media
Language
English
Description
"One of the world's most famous love stories and half a century of Russian history come to life in this adaptation of Pasternak's masterpiece. War and revolution bring poet and physician Yury Zhivago together with the beautiful Lara, his muse and all-consuming passion. But both are hunted, Yury by guilt over his betrayal of Tonya, his beloved wife, and Lara by fear of Komarovsky, the powerful man who means to have her any way he can." --
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Peter Kingdom is a country solicitor whose compassion and humility has won him huge respect in the picture postcard town of Market Shipborough. But there's a secret sadness for the popular lawyer. His brother and business partner, Simon, has died but his body has never been found. Peter constantly searches for clues to the mystery surrounding Simon's death.
Publisher
Real Women Make Waves
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children; an empty nester (Karen Allen) retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free. Combines Joan Anderson's first three books into a moving film." --