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Campari for Breakfast by Sara Crowe
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Campari for Breakfast

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Narrator Sara Crowe

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Length 9 hours 2 minutes
Language English
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'Reads like a cross between I Capture the Castle and Love, Nina' Cathy Rentzenbrink, Bookseller

Life is full of terrible things. Ghosts of dead relatives, heartbreak . . . burnt toast.

In 1987, Sue Bowl's world changes for ever. Her mother dies, leaving her feeling like sheโ€™s lost a vital part of herself. And then her father shacks up with an awful golddigger called Ivana.

But Sueโ€™s mother always told her to make the most of what sheโ€™s got โ€“ and what sheโ€™s got is a love of writing and some interesting relatives. So Sue moves to her Aunt Coralโ€™s crumbling ancestral home, Green Place, along with a growing bunch of oddballs and eccentrics. Not to mention the odd badger or two . . .

There she fully intends to write a book, fall in love, and learn to live decadently.

Campari for Breakfast is a heart-warming, eccentric novel that joins the ranks of great British coming-of-age novels such as Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle and Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love.

Sara Crowe is best known as an actress. She has appeared on television, stage and film, including the iconic Four Weddings and a Funeral. She has won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Variety Club Best Actress Award and the London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Saraโ€™s West End appearances include Private Lives, Calendar Girls and Hay Fever. She has also toured with Acorn Antiques: the Musical, and appeared in The City Madam for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Campari for Breakfast
is Saraโ€™s first novel, inspired by a crumbling old house and a love of English eccentricity. She began writing as a child and has also written comedy sketches for television and stand-up. But in the tradition of late developersโ€š she recently re-opened the notebooks of yesteryear and some of the characters
climbed out.

Sara Crowe is best known as an actress. She has appeared on television, stage and film, including the iconic Four Weddings and a Funeral. She has won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Variety Club Best Actress Award and the London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Saraโ€™s West End appearances include Private Lives, Calendar Girls and Hay Fever. She has also toured with Acorn Antiques: the Musical, and appeared in The City Madam for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Campari for Breakfast
is Saraโ€™s first novel, inspired by a crumbling old house and a love of English eccentricity. She began writing as a child and has also written comedy sketches for television and stand-up. But in the tradition of late developersโ€š she recently re-opened the notebooks of yesteryear and some of the characters
climbed out.

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Reviews

I was really cross when I reached the final few words, because I didn't want it to end. It is brilliant. Heart-rending sorrow, unremitting hopefulness and joy, held together by the delicious comic malapropisms of a startlingly original teenage heroine. An utter delight We defy you not to love Sue, the quirky heroine of Sara Crowe's charming CAMPARI FOR BREAKFAST A sort of upmarket Adrian Mole . . . full of poignancy, humour and shafts of startling perception Campari for Breakfast is truly, charmingly, battily splendidโ€ฆ Utterly divine! This charming debut about family secrets reads like a cross between I Capture the Castle and Love, Nina Expand reviews
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