Emma Kennedy

DAUGHTER With her wedding cancelled moments before it was due to start and her father's passing still casting a shadow, Rachel is back in her old family home in Oxfordshire with her mother, Eleanor, just as her new life should be beginning. MOTHER Fifty years earlier at the dawn of the swinging sixties, eighteen-year-old Eleanor leaves the safety of that same family home to study at Chelsea School of Art. There she discovers life in all its forms and what it is to find love - and lose it. US When Eleanor dies suddenly, Rachel is unable to shake the memory of the many things left unsaid. Stumbling upon a mysterious keepsake hidden among Eleanor's possessions, Rachel begins to unravel a trail that will lead to a secret her mother kept close - bringing painful truths to light that transform everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.

An Unforgettable Story of Love and Family

The Things We Left Unsaid

'Emma Kennedy's books are as funny, warm and life-inspiring as she is' Jenny Colgan 'An excellent read. I loved all the characters' Claudia Winkleman 'A warm, funny and truly life-affirming read. ****' Heat ________________ Three women. Two unforgettable road trips. Wherever you are in life, it's never too late to find yourself. Best friends Agnes and Bea decide to embark on one last adventure before their adult lives begin. For Agnes's mother Florence, a fresh chapter is starting as her youngest flies the nest and her marriage settles into a new routine. But she can't help feeling that something is missing. As Agnes travels to London and Florence follows her heart to Europe, both will discover a world of possibilities they never could have dreamed of... Full of warmth, wit and characters who will steal your heart, The Never-Ending Summer is 2021's perfect escape. _______________________ Praise for Emma Kennedy and The Things We Left Unsaid: 'A rich treat' Jane Fallon 'Moving and magnificent' Claire Balding 'A joyous book' Ruth Jones 'A beautiful novel... so tender and thoughtful. I loved it' Marian Keyes 'Wonderful' Mary Berry

The joyful escape we all need right now

The Never-Ending Summer

Wilma Tenderfoot, a ten-year-old orphan who lives at Cooper Island's Lowside Institute for Woeful Children, dreams of escape and of becoming the apprentice of the world-famous detective Theodore P. Goodman, whose every case she follows devotedly in the newspaper.

Wilma Tenderfoot and the case of the frozen hearts

My Family's Disastrous Attempts to go Camping in the 70s

The Tent, the Bucket and Me

Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Fatal Phantom

The fourth book in the laugh-out-loud-till-you-can't-breathe-and-tears-are-running-down-your-face Wilma Tenderfoot series, by award-winning TV comedy actress and scriptwriter Emma Kennedy. Wilma Tenderfoot (small but determined – and slightly accident prone – assistant to the greatest living detective, Theodore P. Goodman) and her beloved beagle, Pickle, are on their most cracking case yet! The whole of Cooper Island is under threat, Mr Goodman has more on his plate than even he can handle, and Wilma is on the cusp of solving the conundrum of her birthright. But things ALWAYS ALWAYS get worse before they get better (everyone knows that!) – so hold onto your hats, take out the mansize tissues, and get reading...

Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Rascal's Revenge

If you've been experiencing an inexplicable longing for rain, long dark nights, and an overwhelming urge to pull on a slightly itchy looking jumper then congratulations - You have Forbrydelsen Fever. There's no need to panic. This is your chance to get inside the world of Sarah Lund: from the characters, the plot holes and the politics to the language, dating the Danish way and the jumpers. If you've ever wondered who cut the CCTV wire outside Lund's flat in series one, why Morten went so far to protect Troels, where you can start your walking tour of Copenhagen from woods to warehouses and the County Hall or even how you can knit your own Lund jumper - this is the book for you.

Forbryldelsen forever!

The Killing handbook

Emma Kennedy's hilarious memoir of wet and windy family trips, NOW ADAPTED FOR THE MAJOR BBC ONE SERIES THE KENNEDYS. For the 70s child, summer holidays didn't mean the joy of CentreParcs or the sophistication of a Tuscan villa. They meant being crammed into a car with Grandma and heading to the coast. With just a tent for a home and a bucket for the necessities, we would set off on new adventures each year stoically resolving to enjoy ourselves. For Emma Kennedy, and her mum and dad, disaster always came along for the ride no matter where they went. Whether it was being swept away by a force ten gale on the Welsh coast or suffering copious amounts of food poisoning on a brave trip to the south of France, family holidays always left them battered and bruised. But they never gave up. Emma's memoir, The Tent, The Bucket and Me, is a painfully funny reminder of just what it was like to spend your summer holidays cold, damp but with sand between your toes.

A LIFETIME OF SECRETS. A SUMMER OF NEW BEGINNINGS. _____________________ "So tender and thoughtful. I loved it" MARIAN KEYES "A gorgeous, rich treat" JANE FALLON "Warm, intriguing, brimming with tenderness... A joyous book" RUTH JONES ________________________ ONLY THE TRUTH WILL SET HER FREE . . . After her wedding in cancelled hours before she is due to walk down the aisle, Rachel is newly single and must move back in with her mother, Eleanor. But their relationship is far from perfect, and their family home is filled with secrets. It will take a devastating turn of events for Rachel to finally unravel a powerful truth. One that Eleanor has kept close to her heart for decades. Will unlocking the past help Rachel find the key to her future? "This book is incredibly special... I cared so deeply for all of the characters... I got lost in it and I miss the characters so much" GABY ROSLIN "Involving and emotional" JANET ELLIS "Warm and compelling" WOMAN ________________________ Early readers absolutely love The Things We Left Unsaid: 'A really enjoyable book.' 'Truly beautiful. I adored this book. I cried and know that when I read this again and again I'll cry each time.' 'A real and full story that was completely relatable.' 'An excellent read and I would certainly recommend it.' 'The sense of time and place was very authentic.' 'I loved the characters and both them and London felt so alive. The story unfolded at a good pace with lots of treasured moments and the story felt new.' 'The little details portraying the different time periods really make this book special. This is definitely one I'll be recommending.' 'A beautiful story of relationships and their complications.' 'Would recommend without hesitation.' 'I absolutely loved it.' 'Set in two time periods, present day and the sixties, this is a compelling tale of two women coming of age and coming to terms with themselves. I loved this book.' 'I loved this book, from start to finish it had me wanting to keep reading!' 'It is funny, sad and intriguing, a must read. I honestly was sad to get to the end.' 'A funny, touching story.' 'This novel is an absolute gem. I loved everything about it.' 'I loved the way the characters were developed in the story. They worked their way into my heart.' 'This author has insight and compassion and is an excellent storyteller, wise and full of empathy.'

An unforgettable story of love and family

"From the author of bestselling The Tent, The Bucket and Me, now a BBC1 comedy series, THE KENNEDYS. As the youngest in a family of six, all eleven-year-old Anthony wants is a pair of shoes to call his own. Instead he's condemned to wear a pair of hand-me-down wellies that may or may not be haunted. When war comes to his small, impoverished mining village, life starts to get more exciting- there are American soldiers, his sister has joined the WAAF - Mrs Reece even has a banana! But it is only when a foreign plane crashes into the Welsh hillside that Anthony and his gang discover what war is really abouta"

Shoes for Anthony

'Beautiful . . . insightful, fascinating and moving. It's a lovely LOVELY book' Marian Keyes 'This book made me cry' Sara Cox After Emma Kennedy's mother Brenda passed away, she found herself floundering, unable to make sense of the mysterious, charismatic but unpredictable woman who had been her mum. And then she found Brenda's letters, forgotten for years in the attic. As Emma made her way through decades of correspondence, she started to piece together the fractured relationships and buried secrets that had left their indelible mark on Brenda. Finally, she allowed herself to ask the question she couldn't as a child: who, really, was her mother? 'This honest, insightful book is a touching tribute to her complex, inimitable mother' Daily Express 'Remarkable' Dawn French 'A beautiful, hilarious and bittersweet book' Mel Giedroyc

Two suitcases. 75 lost letters. One mother.

Letters From Brenda

When Wilma Tenderfoot, assistant to the world's greatest living detective, and her beagle Pickle, find a mummified body, they seek to identify the body and solve the mysteries of a key, some buried treasure, and a kidnapping.

The Case of the Fatal Phantom

A LIFETIME OF SECRETS. A SUMMER OF NEW BEGINNINGS. _____________________ "So tender and thoughtful. I loved it" MARIAN KEYES "A gorgeous, rich treat" JANE FALLON "Warm, intriguing, brimming with tenderness... A joyous book"RUTH JONES ________________________ ONLY THE TRUTH WILL SET HER FREE . . . After her wedding in cancelled hours before she is due to walk down the aisle, Rachel is newly single and must move back in with her mother, Eleanor. But their relationship is far from perfect, and their family home is filled with secrets. It will take a devastating turn of events for Rachel to finally unravel a powerful truth. One that Eleanor has kept close to her heart for decades. Will unlocking the past help Rachel find the key to her future? "This book is incredibly special... I cared so deeply for all of the characters" GABY ROSLIN "Involving and emotional"JANET ELLIS "Warm and compelling"WOMAN ________________________ Early readers absolutely love The Things We Left Unsaid- 'A really enjoyablebook.' 'Truly beautiful.I adored this book. I criedand know that when I read this again and again I'll cry each time.' 'A real and full story that was completely relatable.' 'An excellent readand I would certainly recommend it.' 'The sense of time and place was very authentic.' 'I loved the characters and both them and London felt so alive. The story unfolded at a good pace withlots of treasured moments and the story felt new.' 'The little details portraying the different time periods really make this book special. This is definitely one I'll be recommending.' 'A beautiful storyof relationships and their complications.' 'Would recommendwithout hesitation.' 'I absolutely lovedit.' 'Set in two time periods, present day and the sixties, this isa compelling tale of two women coming of age and coming to terms with themselves. I loved this book.' 'I loved this book, from start to finish it had me wanting to keep reading!' 'It is funny, sad and intriguing, a must read. I honestly was sad to get to the end.' 'A funny, touchingstory.' 'This novel isan absolute gem. I loved everything about it.' 'I loved the way the characters were developed in the story. They worked their way into my heart.' 'This author has insight and compassion and is an excellent storyteller, wise and full of empathy.'

Sometimes People Can Surprise Us in the Most Unexpected Ways

Don't text your EX before reading this! Psst. Psssst.Hey, you. Yes, you. The one with ros� in one hand and your phone in the other trying to come up with a valuable excuse to text that ex that keeps popping back into your mind. You. I know you have Instagram open to his page, and possibly Facebook, too. Trust me, nothing good can come out of that, because guess what?You're going about it all wrong! Have you ever felt like maybe a great relationship that ended because of timing or indecision was the one? I know I have, and it sucks to think of what could've been when you're sitting alone in your room with your laptop open to happier moments in your life when what could've been was and then it wasn't.That feeling you're feeling now--that feeling of frustration and sadness, maybe even depression--is what's holding you back. With my guide, using the Law of Attraction and little known tidbits of working with the universe to get what you want--what I call: Unlocking Your Universal Powers--you'll literally get what you want. It is law. It sounds weird. It may even sound stupid. But it's true. Everything you want is attainable.Just a few changes in your energy, your way of thinking, your paradigm, your emotions, your beliefs, and everything you want can be yours. "But, Emma, that's what I can't do! How can I make the universe give me what I want?" Does changing the way you think sound hard? Of course it does! If you don't know what you're doing or how, anything can be hard. Someone had to teach you how to tie your shoe, right? Same premise. My guide, How to Get the Guy Back (Or Any Guy), will tell you step-by-step how to use the Law of Attraction along with using what you have around you at your fingertips to speed up the work, or what I call Unlocking Your Universal Powers. Together, LOA and Unlocking Your Universal Powers will take your manifesting to the next level and work fast--super fast.It sounds hard, but it's not.It's really the easiest thing you can do. Literally. I'll guide you through steps I have taken, my friends have taken, and my clients have taken to get your lover back. With this guide, I'll show you how I went from single to getting not one ex back, but two! I had my pick of the two best guys I had had deep and meaningful relationships with, and though that was another problem, I found that using my guide helped me go from single to back with the guy who made me feel more like me. Like the real me. And this time, it was for real. Like, "let's move in together and get a dog" for real. I've guided my single best friends into meaningful relationships with new lovers for some, and ex-lovers for others. It's all about what you really want. My clients have also found peace of mind with lovers of their own with my guide. Some have found new lovers, some have realized their dreams of getting back to meaningful relationships with ex-lovers that left their mark. The kind of lovers that are hard to forget and impossible to stop thinking about. It's not hard. It's easy. And it's fun. And it's joyous. And it's laughter. And it's basic. And it's real.You'll find yourself loving every step of the way to getting that lover back. The Law of Attraction works. It is law.

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How to Get the Guy Back (or Any Guy)

It's 1989, and Emma and her best friend Dee head to the USA to make their fortune. But completely inept and virtually unemployable, they discover that they can't even get a job in McDonald's. Forced to travel from California to New York with only pennies in their pockets, they bounce from scrape to scrape, surviving on their wits and the kindness of strangers. Bad luck and misfortune throw everything their way - snakes, earthquakes, black magic and incontinent dogs. They even get kidnapped by a sex-crazed midget in a Ferrari. This never happened to Jack Kerouac. A startlingly honest and ridiculously funny book, I Left My Tent in San Francisco tells the miraculous story of how the hapless pair made it back alive to tell the disastrous tale.

I Left My Tent in San Francisco

Somewhere between France and England there is an island that no one has ever bothered to discover. On it lives Wilma Tenderfoot, a determined ten-year old girl who dreams of one day becoming a World-Famous Detective. So she can't help thinking it's destiny when, dispatched from the Institute for Woeful Children to her new home as a live-in skivvy, she discovers that the genius gentleman detective Theodore P. Goodman lives next door. A ten-year-old girl of great determination (and her pet beagle, Pickle) and a World-Famous Detective of great repute might not be the most obvious crime-solving duo – but Wilma Tenderfoot is not about to let that put either of them off! And it looks like their first dastardly case is about to begin . . . Feisty but funny, cheeky but charming – Wilma Tenderfoot and her unique mystery-solving methodology is hard to resist!

Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Frozen Hearts

A stolen jewel. Some frozen hearts. And a fish scale. Sounds like a case for Wilma Tenderfoot! Wilma Tenderfoot dreams of one day becoming assistant to the world-famous and very serious detective Theodore P. Goodman. But the last thing Mr Goodman wants is a small and slightly accident-prone sidekick - especially one with an over-friendly beagle called Pickle who keeps eating all the clues. Still, be warned - Wilma Tenderfoot may be small, but she is very determined!

Daniel Chase-Meyers II leaves Wyoming State Penitentiary a tormented man who wants only to regain his humanity. In Cheyenne he meets hard-working Jeremi Kruger whose liquid silver eyes offer acceptance and the promise of salvation. He doesn't realize his efforts to rescue her art gallery and frame shop from bankruptcy make Jeremi the target of the woman determined to kill him. Bizarre vandalism plagues Jeremi's business, and a hit-and-run driver bounces Daniel into a tree. The elderly couple who help him are murdered. The frame shop is trashed and ruined. Dead bodies accumulate, all connected to Daniel. Jeremi knows he is innocent, and she knows she is next when a shattering truth is revealed and dark passions explode in the still Wyoming night.

A Dark Wyoming Wind

"Wilma Tenderfoot sueña con convertirse en la ayudante del detective Theodor P. Goodman. Pero a este gran detective lo que menos le apetece es tener a una niña de diez años, debilucha y algo patosa, y a su revoltoso perro, interrumpiendo todas sus investigaciones y comiéndose las pistas. Pero Wilma insistirá. Quizá sea pequeña, pero es resuelta y tiene una gran voluntad." --From publisher's description.

Wilma Tenderfoot y el Caso de los Corazones Congelados

From the author of bestselling The Tent, The Bucket and Me, now a BBC1 comedy series, THE KENNEDYS. As the youngest in a family of six, all eleven-year-old Anthony wants is a pair of shoes to call his own. Instead he’s condemned to wear a pair of hand-me-down wellies that may or may not be haunted. When war comes to his small, impoverished mining village, life starts to get more exciting: there are American soldiers, his sister has joined the WAAF – Mrs Reece even has a banana! But it is only when a foreign plane crashes into the Welsh hillside that Anthony and his gang discover what war is really about...

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