Swallows & Robins
Blackbird Digital Books (Verlag)
978-0-9933070-1-0 (ISBN)
As the world's worst housekeeper, running holiday homes wasn't, with hindsight, a sensible idea. But two collapsing buildings on Susie Kelly's land would cost more to demolish than to restore. Thus she became a seasonal landlady. Before the guests came the builders. No's 1, 2, 3 all started promisingly, but by builder No. 4, and with her first guests just hours away, her patience was stretched to its limit. Her summer and winter visitors couldn't, as they say, be made up, though, to spare their blushes some of them have been air-brushed. They brought with them laughter, tears, romance, friendship and occasional madness. And they all left behind jars of jam and pots of pepper. From them Susie learned that you don't need to travel to find adventure. If you run holiday homes it comes to your doorstep. Unfortunately for Susie this included Ivy. The cleaning lady from hell.
Born a Londoner, Susie spent most of the first 25 years of her life in Kenya. In 2014, her memoir I Wish I Could Say I Was Sorry about an abusive childhood growing up in post-war London and Kenya, was a US digital top 50 bestseller. She now lives in south-west France with her husband and assorted animals. She believes that her explosive temper is a legacy from her Irish-American grandfather, but has no idea who to blame for her incompetence as a housewife. Susie Kelly is the Patron of the 2015 Charroux International Literary Festival.
CHAPTER 1 Year One CHAPTER 2 Year One - First Find Your Builder CHAPTER 3 Year One - The Gravel Mountain CHAPTER 4 Year One - First Guests CHAPTER 5 Year One - Jars of Jam and Pots of Pepper CHAPTER 6 Year One - The Nothingness of it All CHAPTER 7 Year One - Could Be Cleaner CHAPTER 8 Year One - Wallbangers and Others CHAPTER 9 Year One - Cold Anger CHAPTER 10 Year One - The Hollywooders CHAPTER 11 Year Two - Barefaced Cheek and New Baby CHAPTER 12 Year Two - Lamenting Hens and Malevolent Storms CHAPTER 13 Year Two - The Romance of Lemon Juice CHAPTER 14 Year Two - Mrs Mop to the Rescue CHAPTER 15 Year Two - Micky Poo-Poo And My Cowboy Friend CHAPTER 16 Year Two - The Little People Who Live In The Hedge CHAPTER 17 Year Two - The Golden Goose CHAPTER 18 Year Three - January CHAPTER 19 Year Three - Kiwis, Vet and Nuclear Cottage CHAPTER 20 Year Three - A Bicycle Made For Two CHAPTER 21 Year Three - Must Read More Carefully CHAPTER 22 Year Three - Cut-price Customers CHAPTER 23 Year Three - With The Best Of Intentions CHAPTER 24 Year Three - Family Matters CHAPTER 25 Year Three - The Worst Time CHAPTER 26 Year Three - Dolly's Miracle CHAPTER 27 Year Three - Darling, Look, a Tiny Little Hip Bath! CHAPTER 28 Year Four - Friendship CHAPTER 29 Year Four - Teenagers CHAPTER 30 Year Four - Elvis Comes To Stay CHAPTER 31 Year Four - Worrying Unnecessarily CHAPTER 32 Year Four - The Nudity Clinic CHAPTER 33 Year Four - The Great Meatloaf Deterrent CHAPTER 34 Year Four - The Beginning Of The End CHAPTER 35 Year Four - The Final Curtain CHAPTER 36 Postscript ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MORE TRAVELS WITH SUSIE
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.7.2015 |
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| Zusatzinfo | black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 286 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa | |
| Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Europa | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-9933070-1-9 / 0993307019 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-9933070-1-0 / 9780993307010 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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