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Rosemary Friedman
Book List in Order: 19 titles
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The General Practice
- Jun-2010
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A year in the busy life of a GP is a frenetic combination of joy, comedy and tragedy. The doctor has an exhausting work schedule as he struggles to cope with a smallpox scare, the suicide of his partner, the poignant death of a lonely Holocaust survi...
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The Fraternity
- Aug-2010
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It is the early sixties. The parents of law student, Peach Gatehouse, are both doctors and her brother is a medical student. She is in love with Henry but cannot contemplate life as a doctor's wife. Peach is attempting to make her own way in the worl...
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The Commonplace Day
- Oct-2010
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Elizabeth Westbury, mother of two, has been married to Tim for seventeen years. With her comfortable domestic life and a circle of friends in suburban London, she has all the trappings of a contented existence. However, she has a vague but distressin...
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A Second Wife
- Feb-2011
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'I was not a widow. Had I been married to Victor it might have been easier. It was Molly who had the comfort of the children, hers and Victor's... I was left alone to come to terms with my grief, despair and anger, most of all anger in a society whic...
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Intensive Care
- Jun-2013
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Professor Sidney Sands, vivacious wife of a mathematician and devoted mother of a young son, is researching a cure for fatal lung disease when ironically she is diagnosed with the very condition she is investigating. Does this entitle her to jump the...
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A Loving Mistress
- Jun-2013
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Jean Banks, a bright and attractive young doctor, falls suddenly in love with a prominent captain of industry, Victor Pattison. There is only one problem: he is already married, and has a disabled wife whom, as he warns Jean at the outset, he will ne...
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No White Coat
- Jun-2013
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When the young registrar leaves his post in the hospital for a career in General Practice, he has a lot to learn. There is no white coat to buffer him from the immediate demands of his patients and no support from colleagues to aid diagnosis. He also...
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Paris Summer
- Jul-2013
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In the hottest summer in living memory, Judith Flatland, together with her two children, leaves Boston and the Museum of Fine Arts to follow her husband, Jordan, to Paris, where he is about to finalise a high-profile business deal. Bored with her rol...
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Rose of Jericho
- Jul-2013
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Kitty's husband, Sydney is dead, and eighteen months later, she is still struggling to come to terms with his death. She takes comfort in the lives of her children, and the full comedy and crises of Kitty's circle of family and friends vividly unfold...
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We All Fall Down
- Oct-2013
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Fifty-one-year old Arthur Dexter, a city businessman, is deeply shocked by the sudden death of his friend, Willie Boothroyd. The tragedy forces him to reassess his life and he realises he is dominated by the tedium of everyday concerns. To his wife's...
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The Man Who Understood Women
- Mar-2014
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A delightful series of short stories, providing a composite portrait of women and how the worlds they inhabit have changed over the past 50 years. No longer satisfied with marriage being their only socially acceptable destiny, these women relish thei...
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The Life Situation
Oscar John has it all: a successful author, he has been happily married to Karen for sixteen years. They have two young children and their life is one of stability and contentment. Suddenly this security is shattered when he meets Marie-CĂ©leste, an ...
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The Long Hot Summer
Lorna Brown has everything...so why does she feel so dissatisfied? The clothes, the house, the Poggenpohl kitchen do nothing to give her life meaning. The death of a friend makes her question her existence still further. Then she meets Armand, her da...
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Love on My List
The young GP is adapting to married life with Sylvia while contending with the endless demands facing a family doctor. His initial worries that Sylvia may be hankering after her glamorous life as a model prove unfounded as she embraces her new role a...
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Proofs of Affection
One year in the life of a London Jewish family at a time of great change: Sydney SheltonÂ's business is not doing too well these days, but he has provided for his future and his worries are not about trade but about his own health and his children, n...
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To Live in Peace
This novel pursues the story of Kitty Shelton from Rosemary Friedman's delightful earlier novels Proofs of Affection and Rose of Jericho. Kitty has watched her beloved husband die and her children grow to adulthood. She takes security from her role a...
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