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Campari for Breakfast
- Author
- Sara Crowe
- Narrator
- Sara Crowe
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Publish Date
- 29 January 2015
- Run Time
- 9 hours 3 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
'Reads like a cross between I Capture the Castle and Love, Nina' Cathy Rentzenbrink, Bookseller
Life is full of terrible things. Ghosts of dead relatives, heartbreak . . . burnt toast.
In 1987, Sue Bowl's world changes for ever. Her mother dies, leaving her feeling like she’s lost a vital part of herself. And then her father shacks up with an awful golddigger called Ivana.
But Sue’s mother always told her to make the most of what she’s got – and what she’s got is a love of writing and some interesting relatives. So Sue moves to her Aunt Coral’s crumbling ancestral home, Green Place, along with a growing bunch of oddballs and eccentrics. Not to mention the odd badger or two . . .
There she fully intends to write a book, fall in love, and learn to live decadently.
Campari for Breakfast is a heart-warming, eccentric novel that joins the ranks of great British coming-of-age novels such as Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle and Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love.
Critics Review
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I was really cross when I reached the final few words, because I didn't want it to end. It is brilliant. Heart-rending sorrow, unremitting hopefulness and joy, held together by the delicious comic malapropisms of a startlingly original teenage heroine. An utter delight
Tamsin Greig
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We defy you not to love Sue, the quirky heroine of Sara Crowe's charming CAMPARI FOR BREAKFAST
Good Housekeeping
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A sort of upmarket Adrian Mole . . . full of poignancy, humour and shafts of startling perception
Daily Mail
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Campari for Breakfast is truly, charmingly, battily splendid… Utterly divine!
Lucy Robinson, author of The Unfinished Symphony of You and Me
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This charming debut about family secrets reads like a cross between I Capture the Castle and Love, Nina
Bookseller
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A quirky debut novel as touching as it is funny.
Closer
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Deeply eccentric and very, very funny, Campari for Breakfast is as charming and humane as its multi-talented author. It's also unexpectedly touching. A delight
Mark Gatiss
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Absolutely delightful and charming. I loved it
Julie Cohen, Richard & Judy-selected author of Dear Thing
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A quirky unexpected delight
Harpers Bazaar
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Quirky and rewarding - a delight
Woman and Home
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Details
- Author
- Sara Crowe
- Narrator
- Sara Crowe
- Duration
- 9 hours 3 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 January 2015
- ISBN
- 9781473526044
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Modern and Contemporary romance, Humorous fiction, Humour
Synopsis
'Reads like a cross between I Capture the Castle and Love, Nina' Cathy Rentzenbrink, BooksellerLife is full of terrible things. Ghosts of dead relatives, heartbreak . . . burnt toast.In 1987, Sue Bowl's world changes for ever. Her mother dies, leaving her feeling like she’s lost a vital part of herself. And then her father shacks up with an awful golddigger called Ivana.But Sue’s mother always told her to make the most of what she’s got – and what she’s got is a love of writing and some interesting relatives. So Sue moves to her Aunt Coral’s crumbling ancestral home, Green Place, along with a growing bunch of oddballs and eccentrics. Not to mention the odd badger or two . . . There she fully intends to write a book, fall in love, and learn to live decadently.Campari for Breakfast is a heart-warming, eccentric novel that joins the ranks of great British coming-of-age novels such as Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle and Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love.
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