Spool Of Blue Thread'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow and green afternoon'. This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them and their beloved family

for people at all stages of their journey who are seeking to reshape and transform the way they view themselves

Eliza Camperdowne has always known that her fate is to marry a rich man

by way of Russia and the Middle East

It was a time when old certainties had been shredded: by popular insurgency

he draws from his on-the-ground reporting from mass protests in Istanbul to riots in Washington

DNA determines far less than we have been led to believe about us as individuals

the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List

a Buddhist monk born in Korea and educated in the United States

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She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies

Including inns

Direct from the Repair Shop's 'Workshop of Dreams'