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                                            GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL LIFE
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                                            By Emily Henry
                                            When Margaret Ives, the famously reclusive heiress, invites eternal optimist Alice
                                            Scott to the balmy Little Crescent Island, Alice knows this is it: her big break. And
                                            even more rare: a chance to impress her family with a Serious Publication.
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                                            The catch? Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud, Hayden Anderson, is sure of
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                                            the same thing.
                                            The proposal? A one-month trial period to unearth the truth behind one of the most
                                            scandalous families of the 20th Century, after which she’ll choose who’ll tell her story.
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                                            The problem? Margaret only gives each of them tantalising pieces. Pieces they can’t
                                            put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing be-
                                            tween them every time they’re in the same room.
                                            And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story, just like the tale Margaret’s spin-
                                            ning, could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad - depending on who’s telling it.
                                            Price: R370.00
                  THE HIDDEN GIRL
                  By Lucinda Riley
                  Born and raised in a small village   like a dark shadow, mysteriously
                  on the Yorkshire moors, Leah     intertwined with the tragic tale
                  Thompson grows more beautiful    of two young siblings in Poland
                  with each passing day. When she   during the Second World War.
                  catches the attention of the influ-
                  ential, troubled Delancey family,   As two generations of secrets
                  she knows her life will never be   threaten to explode, Leah is
                  the same again.                  haunted by a fatal, forgotten
                                                   prophecy from her past, and
                  Years later, Leah takes the mod-  must fight to challenge the desti-
                  elling world by storm, travelling   ny that has been mapped out for
                  from Milan to London and New     her in the stars.
                  York and living life in the lap of
                  luxury. But her past follows her   Price: R395.00
                                               THE TEA MERCHANT
                                               By Jackie Phamotse
                                              It is 2005, a time of silent anticipation and hidden possibilities in the rug-
                                              ged Cederberg mountains. Cameron Coal is embroiled in a desperate fight
                                              to save his family’s rooibos farm, which is a hair’s breadth from bankruptcy,
                                             while wrestling overwhelming grief after his wife’s death and trying to build
                                             a relationship with his blind daughter. His father, John, might be the family’s
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                                             last hope to save their farm from an enemy lurking in plain sight. But in the
                                             shadows, Cameron’s brother, Sole, harbours a secret that could shatter their
                                            world.
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                                            Amid the chaos of a veld fire, Cameron’s gaze falls upon an enigmatic nurse,
                                            Luna Parks, who is new to their town. As Luna and Cameron grow closer, her
                                            mysterious past and closely guarded secrets could shatter the very founda-
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                                           tion of their relationship.
                                           Price: R310.00
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