My Friend Monica

My Friend Monica
Author: Jane Duncan
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1447297644

Bursting into Janet Sandison's life at the moment of her marriage to 'Twice' Alexander comes the mercurial, red-haired Monica who hits post-war Scotland like a tornado. Through Monica, Janet and Twice find the charming row of old cottages that becomes their home-and incidentally Monica's too, since she decides to move in with them. At a time when Janet most needs help, Monica is there. But why should she have set her cap at Twice?

Just Friends

Just Friends
Author: Monica Murphy
Publisher: EverAfter Romance
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781682308325

It’s the end of summer. Just before I start senior year with my two best friends in the whole world. Dustin and Emily are everything to me. We’ve been inseparable since middle school, and when we’re together, nothing can go wrong. But things aren’t always what they seem. Em’s turned into a drunken mess who parties too much. Dustin and I have hooked up a few times—and now he’s ready to take our relationship to the next level. Yet I’m not sure I want things to change. I’m scared if I take it any further with Dustin, our friendship will be ruined forever. Then there’s Ryan. The new guy. He’s hot. He flirts way too much. And Em has totally set her sights on him. So when my best friend betrays me in the worst possible way, guess who’s there to help me pick up the pieces of my broken heart? Ryan. But he’s so confusing. Annoying. Sweet. Sexy. I want to trust him, yet he makes it so hard. What I really want is for everything to go back to the way it was before. Before I found out that best friends make the worst kind of enemies.

The Secret of Your Naturally Skinny Friends

The Secret of Your Naturally Skinny Friends
Author: Monica Swanson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre: Exercise
ISBN: 9781517758103

A fresh approach to overcoming struggles with food, exercise, and body image. From journaling prompts, to practical tips and tricks, this book is packed full of helpful tools and useful information.

My Friends Call Me Sam

My Friends Call Me Sam
Author: Monica McDivitt
Publisher: Mascot Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781631771149

My Friend Madame Zora

My Friend Madame Zora
Author: Jane Duncan
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1447297806

'One wants to believe that everything lasts for ever, but it doesn't,' said Twice. 'One has to move on . . .' Janet and her husband 'Twice' Alexander are on a homeleave visit from St. Jago in the Caribbean. Motoring down from Reachfar to Crookmill, the house they made for themselves out of a string of ruined cottages, the most human of married couples in fiction realise that, with the pattern of their lives changing, a hard decision must be made involving two of their dearest 'Friends'. But fate intervenes in the person of the exotic clairvoyant, Madame Zora, and nothing is quite the same again . . .

My Friend Muriel

My Friend Muriel
Author: Jane Duncan
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1447298160

Janet Sandison made her bow in My Friends the Miss Boyds, Jane Duncan's sparkling first novel. Here she is again, now a determined young woman of twenty with a University degree. Taking a job with a cranky Pen-Friend organization, she meets Muriel. Muriel is uncompromisingly plain, but clings like ivy. As the lively narrative unfolds, Muriel's story and Janet's diverge and interlace again, aided by a blushing curate, an eccentric she-dragon and her severely repressed husband, by a shady confidence trickster and a suit of armour!

My Friend Sandy

My Friend Sandy
Author: Jane Duncan
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1447297717

Janet and 'Twice' Alexander break new ground in the island of St. Jago, British West Indies-a setting as far removed from the Highlands of Scotland as a calypso from a lament. But it takes more than a planter's punch compounded of island feuds, jealousies and intrigues to put out the exuberant Alexanders-as this further sparkling episode in the now-famous saga shows, through an unexpected drama provides a startling climax.

My Friends the Mrs. Millers

My Friends the Mrs. Millers
Author: Jane Duncan
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 144729789X

'This Paradise community doesn't seem to me to be the secure, feudal, friendly affair that everybody likes to think. There's a change working . . .' As the turbulent island of St. Jago reaches a turning point in its way of life Janet and Twice Alexander are once again deeply involved in the daily life of the community. Many loved Friends reappear and now added to these are the gentle Mrs Miller from Achcraggan, a link with Janet's childhood; the widowed Mrs Miller in the toils of a mixed marriage, and coloured Mrs Miller who becomes Twice's secretary. When a double crisis occurs in her personal fortunes, Janet finds a new maturity.

Reappraising Jane Duncan

Reappraising Jane Duncan
Author: Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786498870

Scottish novelist Jane Duncan's semiautobiographical My Friends series was dismissed by postwar critics as lightweight, at a time when a coterie of "angry young men" monopolized the attention of the British publishing establishment. Yet deeper themes are at play in the 19 novels. Modern readers will recognize feminist motifs, a wide-ranging examination of women's education and work in the 20th century, a woman's view of the rising societal tensions of the 1920s and 1930s, and an outsider's perspective on the racial divide in the soon-to-be-independent West Indies. This book explores Duncan's body of work, out of print for decades, though sought by loyal fans. Her characters run the gamut--drunken tinkers, Lowland housewives, Irish miners, members of the London fast set and English marchionesses, all portrayed with telling detail. Her novels--two of them recently reprinted for a new generation--reveal a charming and perceptive recorder of the changes Great Britain underwent in the past century.