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Bestselling author of Having It All and All That She Wants, Maeve Haran has scored another triumph with Soft Touch, a light-hearted look at the melodrama of family relationships in the 1990s. Catherine Hope serves as the novel's focus as she finds herself helplessly trapped between generations. Scorned by her 18-year-old daughter who treats her "with the kind of contempt normally reserved for traffic wardens and paedophiles", Catherine finds no solace from her overbearing, conventional mother-in-law: "The trouble with your generation is that you have the authority of a damp dishrag!" And things look set to go from bad to worse when her daughter becomes involved with a sexy road protestor--a road her mother-in-law is campaigning to have built! Tempers flare, lines are drawn and Catherine is ready to give up on the lot of them. But when it comes down to it, the whole family manages to surprise one another in the face of crisis. Soft Touch is an entertaining novel about growing up, growing old and growing together. --Shannon Bingham --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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'Maeve Haran writes as she is: funny, warm and wry' YOU Magazine For HAVING IT ALL 'Dazzlingly accomplished. It will make you laugh, cry and rethink your life' JILLY COOPER For IT TAKES TWO 'Fast, furious and gripping' OPTIONS
From adorable babies and irresistible little girls, teenage daughters often turn into parent-hating viragos. Haran, famous for creating the Having it All revolution, continues to bring a light touch to problems of the 1990s. Catherine, battling with bullying at work and with a newly liberated granny fighting a threatened countryside-despoiling bypass, has her hands full to overflowing. This is diverting, but discerning stuff. There is an unfortunate gaffe, however: Granny claims to have been 'a nurse in the war', yet she was born in 1932, which would have made her about seven when World War II began! (Kirkus UK)
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Bestselling author of Having It All and All That She Wants, Maeve Haran has scored another triumph with Soft Touch, a light-hearted look at the melodrama of family relationships in the 1990s. Catherine Hope serves as the novel's focus as she finds herself helplessly trapped between generations. Scorned by her 18-year-old daughter who treats her "with the kind of contempt normally reserved for traffic wardens and paedophiles", Catherine finds no solace from her overbearing, conventional mother-in-law: "The trouble with your generation is that you have the authority of a damp dishrag!" And things look set to go from bad to worse when her daughter becomes involved with a sexy road protestor--a road her mother-in-law is campaigning to have built! Tempers flare, lines are drawn and Catherine is ready to give up on the lot of them. But when it comes down to it, the whole family manages to surprise one another in the face of crisis. Soft Touch is an entertaining novel about growing up, growing old and growing together. --Shannon Bingham --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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'Maeve Haran writes as she is: funny, warm and wry' YOU Magazine For HAVING IT ALL 'Dazzlingly accomplished. It will make you laugh, cry and rethink your life' JILLY COOPER For IT TAKES TWO 'Fast, furious and gripping' OPTIONS
From adorable babies and irresistible little girls, teenage daughters often turn into parent-hating viragos. Haran, famous for creating the Having it All revolution, continues to bring a light touch to problems of the 1990s. Catherine, battling with bullying at work and with a newly liberated granny fighting a threatened countryside-despoiling bypass, has her hands full to overflowing. This is diverting, but discerning stuff. There is an unfortunate gaffe, however: Granny claims to have been 'a nurse in the war', yet she was born in 1932, which would have made her about seven when World War II began! (Kirkus UK)
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