Books by Sylvia Murphy
CANDY'S CHILDREN
A wealthy Palestinian businessman, a middle-aged rock star, an Australian university lecturer, a nun, and an English aristocrat – why are these five ill-assorted people meeting up in a stately home in Yorkshire?
They are the children of Candy Price, one time film star and recently dowager Countess of Penmore. She has been murdered by an assassin’s bomb on a mysterious visit to Tel Aviv and they are gathering for her funeral - an event that will change all their lives one way or another. For they all have personal issues to resolve as a result of their mother’s colourful and defiant life. This has stretched from the partition of Palestine, through World War 2 in England and a miserable marriage to a fighter pilot, to being married to a Hollywood film star in the sixties, to having an affair with the heir to the Penmore title.
As we learn more about their disparate lives, it becomes apparent that each of the children has a different perception of their mother as a result of their upbringing.
ISBN 978-0-9550512–1-0
RRP £10.95 + £2.00 p&p
THE COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF SALLY FRY
What is to be done when your thesis is long overdue, your son has run away from home and even retreating to a remote holiday cottage in Cornwall with a mother adept at absorbing (or is it attracting) problems has not brought the required peace and quiet? For Sally Fry, the harassed heroine of this unusual novel, the answer is to write her Complete Knowledge: bits and pieces of random information which she hopes will clarify and make sense of her haphazard life. But, far from clearing her mind for more serious work, Sally’s Knowledge increasingly comes to reflect the hilarious and often outrageous events which overtake her through the eventful summer.
“Sylvia Murphy writes with tremendous aplomb and disarming wit” – The Times
“Acidly observant and bitchy” – The Observer
“Most accomplished, very funny, very human” – Homes & Gardens
RRP £9.95 + £2.00 p&p
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BARLY BEACH
After the break-up of her ill-judged marriage, Jenny Sharpe takes refuge in unspoilt Barly Beach with her young son, Thomas. After an idyllic summer she decides to stay and they begin to carve out a place for themselves as part of the local scene. That is, until the Black Corporation decides it is time to exploit Barly’s potential for redevelopment and the sleepy backwater wakes up to defend itself.
“Written with subtlety and cunning and every page, sentence and word is completely delightful” – The Daily Telegraph
“Ominously entertaining” – The Guardian
RRP £9.95 + £2.00 p&p
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KEEPING NYALA IN STYLE
Improving a Classic Boat and maintaining her original elegance.
Nyala is an eleven-ton ketch built in 1933 and designed by Maurice Griffiths. This is the story of how the author and her husband brought the boat up to a suitable standard so that they could cruise and live aboard her. The task was a lengthy one and as the story unfolds, each step of the work is carefully explained and beautifully illustrated.
The wealth of useful information on how to fit new equipment without losing the essential character of a wooden boat has made this book a popular handbook for others who are involved in similar projects worldwide.
RRP £18.95 + £2.00 p&p
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SURVIVING YOUR PARTNER
Living with the death of the person closest to you
"This book gives the bereaved hope and empowerment" George Penaluna
Losing your life's partner is a devastating experience. Whether the partnership was long and the surviving partner is well into old age, or whether it was relatively short and the survivor has much of his or her life still ahead, the emotional and practical problems are enormous. Not only is there bereavement and all its associated problems to face, there is also the prospect of becoming single again.
RRP £5.99 + £2.00 p&p
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DEALING WITH A DEATH IN THE FAMILY –
How to manage the emotional and practical difficulties surrounding a death
How To Books
Much as we may prefer to avoid thinking about it, sooner or later every family has to face up to the death of one of its members. This book helps anyone who has to work their way through the practical maze of legal and social arrangements before they can be left in peace to mourn the departed.
Out of print.
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