Lucy Robinson

Sally is an incredible singer but she sings only in her wardrobe where nobody can hear her. She'd rather join a nudist colony than sing in public. That is until she ventures to New York where a wild and heady summer of love and loss changes her forever. No longer able to hide in the shadows, Sally must return home to London to fulfill a promise she cannot break - to share her voice. But just as she's about to embark on her new life, a beautiful man turns up on Sally's doorstep bearing a sheepish smile and a mysterious hand-written message. How did he find her? Why is he here? Does he hold the truth to what happened back in New York? And, with him back on the scene, will she still have the courage to step into the spotlight? 'A charming, gorgeous tale of an ordinary woman with an extraordinary talent. I flaming loved it.' Milly Johnson 'You'll be laughing one minute and crying the next.' Lucy Diamond 'Quirky, charming, at times hilarious and at times heart-wrenching, this is Lucy Robinson at her very best.' Huffington Post 'A rollicking, rich, romantic, rollercoaster of a novel.' Katy Regan

The Unfinished Symphony of You and Me

The Greatest Love Story of All Time is a laugh-out-loud debut novel from the Marie Claire blogger, Lucy RobinsonIt's Fran's thirtieth birthday and things are good . . . She's bluffed her way into a Very Posh Job and her outlandishly handsome and talented boyfriend Michael is escorting her to the Ritz with a bulge the shape of a ring box in his pocket.But something has gone wrong. Very wrong. By the end of the evening Fran is howling in bed with a bottle of cheap brandy and one of Michael's old socks. In her quest to figure out why her life has suddenly gone down the pan, Fran comes up with a failsafe plan: live like a badger, stalk a stranger called Nellie and cancel her beloved Gin Thursdays in favour of drinking gin every night. But then Fran's friends force a very different plan on her and it's nowhere near as fun. How could eight dates possibly make her feel better? But eventually she agrees. And so begins the greatest love story of all time . . .Praise for Lucy Robinson:'The new Marian Keyes . . . romantic and laugh-out-loud hilarious' Cosmopolitan'An absolute must-read' Huffington Post'Prepare for public-transport belly laughs' Glamour'Refreshingly playful' Red The Greatest Love Story of All Time is Lucy Robinson's debut novel. Prior to writing Lucy worked first in West End theatre production and then factual television, working on documentaries for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and five. Her writing career began when she started a dating blog for marieclaire.co.uk where she entertained readers with frank tales from her laughably unsuccessful foray into the world of internet dating. Lucy is from Gloucestershire where she was brought up surrounded by various stupid animals and is currently conducting an early mid-life crisis in South America. When in London she likes to think she lives in Highbury but in truth she is a person of no fixed abode.

The Greatest Love Story of All Time

Charley Lambert has worked hard at creating a perfect life. She has an aspirational flat, a job of international significance and a very good pair of legs, thanks to a rigorous health and fitness regime. Best of all, her boss has asked her out after seven years' hard flirting and a covert fumble in a mop cupboard. Then she breaks her leg in three places, watches her boss propose to someone else and - horror - is forced to hand over her job to her nasty deputy. Charley, a certified workaholic, fears that she will go mad. Dangerously bored, she starts helping people who are talentless at internet dating. Then William arrives in her inbox and rocks her world. Helpless, she watches herself fall in love with him and discovers she's not who she thought she was. But can she turn her back on her old life - all for a total stranger? Praise for The Greatest Love Story of All Time 'Many novels claim to be laugh-out-loud funny, but this debut actually is.' Glamour 'Romantic and laugh-out-loud hilarious.' Cosmopolitan 'An outlandish yet funny debut for Lucy Robinson.' Stylist.co.uk 'A genuinely funny novel.' We Love This Book www.lucy-robinson.co.uk www.twitter.com/lucy_robinson

A Passionate Love Affair with a Total Stranger

Annie has a secret . . . But if she's not going to tell, we won't either. It's a heart-breaking secret she wishes she didn't have - yet Annie isn't broken, not quite yet. Especially now there's someone out there who seems determined to fix her. Kate has run away. But she's not going to tell us why - that would defeat the point of running, wouldn't it? It's proving difficult to reinvent herself however with one person always on her mind. Scratch beneath the surface and nobody is really who they seem. Even Annie and Kate, two old friends, aren't entirely sure who they are any more. Perhaps you can work it out, before their pasts catch up with them for good . . . 'Lucy Robinson combines the perfect blend of wit, warmth and mystery that will keep you hooked until the last page and leave you bereft once it's turned.' Rowan Coleman, bestselling author of The Memory Book

The Day We Disappeared

Zwei wie du und ich

Angel of Yesterday

HEMLIGHETER, HÄSTAR OCH OVÄNTAD KÄRLEK Annie har en hemlighet. Men om inte hon vill berätta den, så tänker inte vi göra det heller. Det är en hjärtskärande hemlighet som hon önskar att hon inte hade och ändå är Annie inte helt uträknad, inte än. Särskilt nu när det finns någon därute som verkar fast besluten att laga henne. Kate har rymt. Men hon tänker inte berätta varför det skulle motverka hela syftet med att fly, eller hur? Hon lyckades ändå få jobbet som hästskötare hos mästerryttaren Mark, trots att hon aldrig satt sin fot i ett stall. Skrapa på ytan och upptäck att ingen är den man tror. Inte ens de gamla vännerna Annie och Kate är helt säkra på vilka de är längre. Kanske kan du ta reda på det innan deras förflutna hinner ikapp dem för gott Dagen då vi försvann är en charmig historia om två unga kvinnor som försöker komma undan sitt förflutna. Precis som Marian Keyes behandlar Lucy Robinson ett tungt ämne med lätt hand.

Dagen då vi försvann

Matthew Worley

Peter Webb

Keith Gildart

Bill Osgerby

John Street

Anna Gough-Yates

Sian Lincoln

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture. The book’s themes are riots, music and gangs, connecting spectacular expression of youthful disaffection with everyday practices. By so doing, Youth Culture and Social Change maps out new ways of historicizing responses to economic and social change: public unrest and popular culture.

Making a Difference by Making a Noise

Youth Culture and Social Change

This book assesses the legacy of Dick Hebdige and his work on subcultures in his seminal work, Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979). The volume interrogates the concept of subculture put forward by Hebdige, and asks if this concept is still capable of helping us understand the subcultures of the twenty-first century. The contributors to this volume assess the main theoretical trends behind Hebdige’s work, critically engaging with their value and how they orient a researcher or student of subculture, and also look at some absences in Hebdige’s original account of subculture, such as gender and ethnicity. The book concludes with an interview with Hebdige himself, where he deals with questions about his concept of subculture and the gestation of his original work in a way that shows his seriousness and humour in equal measure. This volume is a vital contribution to the debate on subculture from some of the best researchers and academics working in the field in the twenty-first century.

Through the Subcultural Lens

Hebdige and Subculture in the Twenty-First Century

Now that’s what I call a history of the 1980s tells the story of eighties Britain through its popular culture. Charting era-defining moments from Lady Diana’s legs and the miners’ strike to Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage and Adam and the Ants, Lucy Robinson weaves together an alternative history to the one we think we know. This is not a history of big geopolitical disasters, or a nostalgic romp through discos, shoulder pads and yuppie culture. Instead, the book explores a mashing together of different genres and fan bases in order to make sense of our recent past and give new insights into the decade that defined both globalisation and excess. Packed with archival and cultural research but written with verve and spark, the book offers as much to general readers as to scholars of this period, presenting a distinctive and definitive contemporary history of 1980s Britain, from pop to politics, to cold war cultures, censorship and sexuality.

Pop culture and politics in the decade that shaped modern Britain

Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s

In the UK today, approximately 1.6 million people awoke to the same problem (that's if they'd managed to sleep) - how to survive another day alongside the torrid and turbulent emotions associated with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Although you'd struggle to find a room big enough to house them all at once, it's not a 'popular' mental health problem and has received little publicity. The fact that you've heard of it at all probably you have it or somebody close at hand does. In the immense isolating pain and confusion that BPD can bring with it, this book is here to remind you that you are not alone - there are at least 1,599,999 others who feel their own personal version of your suffering. This unique anthology brings you some of their voices. The included poetry and prose features not only pieces by people with BPD, but also the viewpoint of carers and treatment providers. This book won't teach you the facts and figures about BPD or the latest theories as to what causes or treats it, but it will provide the aspect of BPD that is almost always missed - how it feels.

Voices Beyond the Border

It's Fran's 30th birthday and things are good: a great job and an outlandishly handsome boyfriend. But then things fall apart, and soon Fran is facing singledom again. She doesn't like her friends' plan - how could eight dates possible make her feel better? But eventually she agrees, and so begins the greatest love story of all time.

And how it was Nearly Ruined by an Evil Cat, Gin and Unsuitable Men

Per anni Charley Lambert si è dedicata anima e corpo all’azienda per cui lavora: non solo è una work-addicted convinta, ma si è anche innamorata del suo capo. Perciò, quando si rompe una gamba le crolla il mondo addosso: per la prima volta in vita sua è costretta a fermarsi, letteralmente. E, come colpo di grazia, scopre che il suo capo ha deciso di sposare un’altra donna.Per non restare a piangere sul suo cuore spezzato e non impazzire di noia, Charley fonda la First Date Aid, una società che offre un servizio di ghost-writing per quanti muoiono dalla voglia di trovare l’amore su internet ma non hanno il tempo o il talento per scambiare messaggi online con gli aspiranti partner. Charley non ha problemi a flirtare con perfetti sconosciuti per conto delle clienti, ma le cose si complicano quando viene ingaggiata da Shelley, una donna in carriera che le somiglia molto. Quando Shelley chiede a Charley di contattare William, la ragazza resta subito affascinata da questo dottore spiritoso e intrigante ma al tempo stesso profondo, che sembra penetrare le difese di Charley con una facilità estrema. L’affinità immediata con William la spinge a dar sfogo a quelle che sono le questioni irrisolte della sua vita. E dalla comprensione all’amore il passo è breve...Da quel momento Charley è combattuta tra desiderio e senso del dovere: quando Shelley e William decidono finalmente di conoscersi, lei si presenta di nascosto all’appuntamento per spiarli. Ma già a un primo sguardo, William non sembra l’uomo che ha conosciuto in rete... perché in realtà anche lui ha ingaggiato un ghost-writer per gestire il proprio profilo online! E questo ghost-writer non è nient’altri che Sam, il coinquilino sexy, rubacuori e inaffidabile di Charley. Superato lo choc della sorpresa, Charley si trova a un bivio: è mai possibile che il vero amore fosse proprio lì, sotto il suo naso?

Niente è più vero di una bugia

Die E-Mails eines Unbekannten lassen Charleys Herz höher schlagen. Sie kann ja nicht ahnen, wer er wirklich ist ... Charley Lamberts Leben ist perfekt. Sie hat eine erfolgreiche Karriere und eine hübsche Wohnung in Edinburgh. Na gut, ihr Mitbewohner Sam ist ein notorischer Weiberheld, aber von ihm einmal abgesehen könnte es kaum besser laufen. Doch dann bricht sie sich das Bein, muss noch im Krankenhaus erfahren, dass ihr Chef, für den sie seit Jahren mehr oder minder heimlich schwärmt, bald heiratet, und wird noch dazu zu wochenlanger Bettruhe verdonnert. Aus Langeweile gründet Charley eine Internet-Dating-Agentur für verzweifelte Singlefrauen. Bald entsteht daraus ein blühendes Geschäft. Doch dann verliebt sie sich ausgerechnet in die E-Mails des Auserwählten einer ihrer Kundinnen ...

Roman

Verliebt in einen Unbekannten

Fran ligt te stinken in haar bed. Ze heeft zich er al bijna drie weken vrijwel non-stop in verschanst, sinds haar buitengewoon knappe en getalenteerde vriendje haar trakteerde op een speciaal verjaardagsetentje, waarbij hij liefdevol haar gezicht in zijn handen nam en vertelde dat hij haar nooit meer wilde zien. Fran heeft een ingewikkelde stalkactie opgezet om te achterhalen waarom hij haar met zo veel ceremonieel heeft gedumpt. Maar hoe dieper ze graaft, hoe stuitender de ontdekkingen zijn die ze doet. Om alles nog erger te maken zit Fran midden in een carrièrecrisis van epische proporties, heeft ze een moeder wier drinkgewoontes danig uit de hand beginnen te lopen en een kat wiens levensmissie het is om haar van het leven te beroven.Net als alles niet erger lijkt te kunnen worden, slaan haar vrienden de handen ineen en smeden een plan om Fran te redden. Het plan klinkt als een Heel Erg Slecht Idee. Maar heeft ze eigenlijk nog wel een keus?

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