Casting Off by Libby Purves

Casting Off by Libby Purves

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What makes a wife and mother, pillar of the community and partner in a cosy tea shop, suddenly run away to sea, alone? Joanna hardly knows herself. But as she moves along the coast of Britain, Joanna finds that if you make a voyage into your own past, you might well find a solution for the future.

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Casting Off by Libby Purves

What makes a wife and mother, pillar of the community and partner in a cosy tea shop, suddenly run away to sea, alone? Joanna hardly knows herself. But as she moves along the coast of Britain, Joanna finds that if you make a voyage into your own past, you might well find a solution for the future.
Libby Purves is a writer and also a broadcaster who has presented the talk programme Midweek on Radio 4 since 1984 and formerly presented Today. She is a main columnist on the Times and in 1999 was named the Granada "What the Papers Say" Columnist of the Year, and awarded a O.B.E for services to journalism.
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ISBN 13 9780340628164
ISBN 10 0340628162
Title Casting Off
Author Libby Purves
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Year published 1995-06-15
Number of pages 264
Prizes Short-listed for Romantic Novelists' Association Awards: Romantic Novel of the Year 1996
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