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Tony Parsons

Starting Over Hardcover – 2 April 2009

by Tony Parsons (Author)

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This is the story of how we grow old -- how we give up the dreams of youth for something better -- and how many chances we have to get it right. George Bailey has been given the gift we all dream of -- the chance to live his life again. After suffering a heart attack at the age of 42, George is given the heart of a 19-year-old -- and suddenly everything changes. He is a friend to his teenage son and daughter -- and not a stern Home Secretary, monitoring their every move. And suddenly he wants to change the world -- just as soon as he shakes off his hangover. But George Bailey discovers that being young again is not all it is cracked up to be -- and what he actually wants more than anything in the universe is to have his old life back.

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400 pages
Language

English
Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publication date

2 April 2009
ISBN-10

0007226500
ISBN-13

978-0007226504
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Praise for Tony Parsons: 'A funny, sad love story' Spectator 'Tony Parsons is the master of the bittersweet love story' Red 'Parsons has created a much bigger and more compelling book. It's a major achievement' Mirror 'Funny, serious, tender and honest!Tony Parsons is writing about the genuine dilemmas of modern life' Sunday Express 'He takes as his specialist subject contemporary emotional issues which almost every other male writer has ignored' Guardian 'Memorable and poignant -- nobody squeezes more genuine emotion from a scene than Tony Parsons' Spectator

About the Author

Tony Parsons is the author of Man and Boy , winner of the Book of the Year prize. His subsequent novels – One For My Baby, Man and Wife, The Family Way, Stories We Could Tell and My Favourite Wife – were all bestsellers. He is also the author of the Max Wolfe thrillers. He lives in London.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (2 April 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0007226500
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0007226504

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Have you met the people next door?

They are charming. They are beautiful.

And they know the secrets that you keep.

They live in the Gardens – a quiet leafy corner of the countryside – but not so quiet that you can’t get decent coffee.

And don’t we all want to live in the Gardens?

A young married couple flee the city for a little corner of paradise, exchanging their flat with all its unhappy memories for a small honey-coloured house among the rolling green hills of Oxfordshire.

Their new home is their dream. Their new neighbours are welcoming. The Gardens feels like the perfect place for the Wades - Lana and Roman, a photographer and a doctor - to begin again.

The Wades are an attractive, popular couple. But they are also a couple with a secret, a secret buried in the life they have left behind, a secret they have shared with no-one. But their new neighbours – these friendly, affluent, educated men and women in the Gardens – have secrets of their own.

Terrible secrets. Unimaginable secrets.

The true story of an unhappy wife who ran away. The true crime of a happy family who lived – and so tragically died – in Lana and Roman’s new home.

As Lana struggles to adjust to her new life in paradise, she begins to believe that these events are somehow connected.

And Roman increasingly thinks that his beloved wife is going out of her mind, still traumatised by what happened to them in their old life.

And they can’t both be right.

The People Next Door is a psychological thriller full of shocking turns and twists – a murder mystery wrapped in a love story, and a love story wrapped in a murder mystery. It is about the hard truths we all hide - and what we will do for love.

And what happens when the people next door know the secret that you keep.

The book appears in hardback and Kindle on 31st March 2021 with a paperback release of 1st September 2021. I really hope you like it. Thank you.

Tony