A Better World Than This

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Nov 1986
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In a small Lancashire cotton town in the 1930s, Daisy Bell dreams her life away. At twenty-six, still a spinster and heiress to her mother's potato pie shop, she's resigned to a lonely old age. But toiling over the bake-house fire she dreams of a better world - a world of glamour and romance as seen on the silver screen. Then she meets Sam a dashing Clark Gable look-alike and chauffeur to a wealthy London businessman - and suddenly her life is changed forever... and the woman who had resigned herself to being an 'old maid', finds herself embarking on an affair with a married man.

Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award (1987) by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

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Aug 1987 Arrow (UK) ISBN 0099524309
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Nov 1986 Century (UK) ISBN 0712695281
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Aug 1989 Chivers Audio Books ISBN 0745168396
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Sep 1987 Ulverscroft Large Print ISBN 0708984304
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