Campari for Breakfast - Hardcover

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Sara Crowe is best known as an actress. She has appeared on television, stage and film, including the iconic Four Weddings and a Funeral. She has won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Variety Club Best Actress Award and the London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Sara's West End appearances include Private Lives, Calendar Girls and Hay Fever. She has also toured with Acorn Antiques: the Musical, and appeared in The City Madam for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Campari for Breakfast is Sara's first novel, inspired by a crumbling old house and a love of English eccentricity. She began writing as a child and has also written comedy sketches for television and stand-up. But in the tradition of late developers, she recently re-opened the notebooks of yesteryear and some of the characters

climbed out.

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At seventeen you're not quite a woman; neither one thing nor another.

I long to be twenty, whereas my Aunt Coral longs to be thirty.

Neither of us can speed up or reverse the process, and neither of us really likes it. Aunt C always quotes Oscar Wilde on the subject: 'The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.'

Sounds to me like he was in denial.

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Life is full of terrible things. Ghosts of dead relatives, heartbreak . . . burnt toast.

In 1987, Sue Bowl's world changes for ever. Her mother dies, leaving her feeling like she's lost a vital part of herself. And then her father shacks up with an awful golddigger called Ivana.

But Sue's mother always told her to make the most of what she's got - and what she's got is a love of writing and some interesting relatives. So Sue moves to her Aunt Coral's crumbling ancestral home, Green Place, along with an ever-growing bunch of oddballs and eccentrics.

Not to mention the odd badger or two . . .