The Resource The forever girl, Alexander McCall Smith
The forever girl, Alexander McCall Smith
Resource Information
The item The forever girl, Alexander McCall Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The forever girl, Alexander McCall Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- This is a stand-alone, big-hearted, and often heartbreaking novel about unrequited love and the unexpected places it takes us. At age 4, Thursday chooses her own name. At age 6, she falls in love with her best friend, James, with whom she happily spends all her time. But in the adult world, things are not so simple: at the same time that Thursday's mother finds she's fallen out of love with her husband, she realizes that James's father is interested in her. As the children grow into adulthood, their connection becomes more complicated as well: James drifts away from Thursday, but she keeps him in her sights: she attends the same college in Scotland and then follows him to London, Sydney, Singapore, rebuilding her life in every city, hoping each time that James will see what he is missing. As Thursday and James, and their parents, navigate their irresistible but baffling mazes of emotion, we are given a beautifully realized tale about how love, even if unrequited, can shape a life
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The forever girl
- Title
- The forever girl
- Statement of responsibility
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Subject
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- trueLondon, England
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueScotland
- trueSingapore
- trueSydney, New South Wales
- trueUnrequited love
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueBest friends
- trueBoy/girl relations
- trueCayman Islands
- trueDevotedness
- Families -- Fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFriendship
- trueGentle reads
- trueGrowing up
- trueInterpersonal relations
- trueLove
- trueLove stories
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This is a stand-alone, big-hearted, and often heartbreaking novel about unrequited love and the unexpected places it takes us. At age 4, Thursday chooses her own name. At age 6, she falls in love with her best friend, James, with whom she happily spends all her time. But in the adult world, things are not so simple: at the same time that Thursday's mother finds she's fallen out of love with her husband, she realizes that James's father is interested in her. As the children grow into adulthood, their connection becomes more complicated as well: James drifts away from Thursday, but she keeps him in her sights: she attends the same college in Scotland and then follows him to London, Sydney, Singapore, rebuilding her life in every city, hoping each time that James will see what he is missing. As Thursday and James, and their parents, navigate their irresistible but baffling mazes of emotion, we are given a beautifully realized tale about how love, even if unrequited, can shape a life
- Summary
- Choosing her own name and falling in love with her best friend as a preschooler, Thursday endures the increasing complications of the adult world while trying to win her crush's heart and seeing his father fall in love with her mother. By the best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
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- 10262468
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1948-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McCall Smith, Alexander
- Dewey number
- 823.914
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Man-woman relationships
- Families
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The forever girl, Alexander McCall Smith
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000052430718
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 316 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781846972294
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Label
- The forever girl, Alexander McCall Smith
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000052430718
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 316 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781846972294
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
Subject
- trueLondon, England
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueScotland
- trueSingapore
- trueSydney, New South Wales
- trueUnrequited love
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueBest friends
- trueBoy/girl relations
- trueCayman Islands
- trueDevotedness
- Families -- Fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFriendship
- trueGentle reads
- trueGrowing up
- trueInterpersonal relations
- trueLove
- trueLove stories
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Library Locations
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Lionel Bowen Library and Community CentreBorrow it669-673 Anzac Parade, Marouba, NSW, 2035, AU-33.938111 151.237977
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Malabar Community LibraryBorrow it1203 Anzac Parade, Matraville, NSW, 2036, AU-33.962293 151.245961
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Margaret Martin LibraryBorrow itLevel 1, Royal Randwick Shopping Centre, Randwick, NSW, 2031, AU-33.9151421 151.2408898
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