Hawley, Ellen – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:12:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Hawley, Ellen – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 A decent world https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/a-decent-world-2/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=38138 Summer Dawidowitz has spent the past year caring for her grandmother, Josie – a lifelong Communist, a dedicated teacher, and the founder of an organization that tutors schoolchildren. When Josie dies, everything that seemed solid in Summer’s life comes into question. What sort of relationship will she have with the mother who abandoned her? Will she meet with the brother Josie exiled from the family? Does she really want to go back to the non-monogamous household she was part of before she moved in to take care of Josie?

Finally, does she still believe a small, committed group of citizens can change the world, and if so – how?

]]> A decent world https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/a-decent-world/ Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/a-decent-world/ Summer Dawidowitz has spent the past year caring for her grandmother, Josie – a lifelong Communist, a dedicated teacher, and the founder of an organization that tutors schoolchildren. When Josie dies, everything that seemed solid in Summer’s life comes into question. What sort of relationship will she have with the mother who abandoned her? Will she meet with the brother Josie exiled from the family? Does she really want to go back to the non-monogamous household she was part of before she moved in to take care of Josie?

Finally, does she still believe a small, committed group of citizens can change the world, and if so – how?

]]> Other people manage https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/other-people-manage/ Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=31394 ‘A  quietly devastating novel  about our failings and how we cope’ Patrick Gale

It’s Minneapolis in the 1970s, and two women meet in the Women’s Coffeehouse. Marge is a bus driver, and Peg is training to be a psychotherapist.

Over the next twenty years, they stay together, through the challenges any couple faces and some that no one expects. Then one day things change, and Marge has to work out what she’s left with – and if she still belongs to the family she’s adopted as her own.

Other People Manage is a novel about hard-earned but everyday love. It’s about family and it’s about loss. It’s the kind of novel that only someone who has lived enough of life could write – frequently funny, at times almost unbearably moving, but above all extraordinarily wise.

]]> Other People Manage *signed* https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/other-people-manage-signed/ Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=21923 ‘A  quietly devastating novel  about our failings and how we cope’ Patrick Gale

It’s Minneapolis in the 1970s, and two women meet in the Women’s Coffeehouse. Marge is a bus driver, and Peg is training to be a psychotherapist.

Over the next twenty years, they stay together, through the challenges any couple faces and some that no one expects. Then one day things change, and Marge has to work out what she’s left with – and if she still belongs to the family she’s adopted as her own.

Other People Manage is a novel about hard-earned but everyday love. It’s about family and it’s about loss. It’s the kind of novel that only someone who has lived enough of life could write – frequently funny, at times almost unbearably moving, but above all extraordinarily wise.

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