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Sheila | 📚Bookstagram on Instagram: "📚 2024 was an incredible reading year! I discovered unforgettable stories from debut authors, fell in love with favorites all over again, and found new voices that completely blew me away. Narrowing this list down felt like picking a favorite child, but these 20 books earned a perfect 5-star rating from me. 📌Save this list for the next time you need a great book, and 📩 send to another bookish friend! ❓Which book from this list have you read? Or tell me—what’s your favorite book of 2024? Best Books of 2024 ✨Fiction✨ 📖 FAMILY FAMILY by Laurie Frankel 🌸 SHARK HEART by Emily Habeck 📖 THE WEDDING PEOPLE by Alison Espach 🌸 BLUE SISTERS by Coco Mellors 📖 SLOW DANCE by Rainbow Rowell 🌸 DIVINE RIVALS by Rebecca Ross ✨Historical Fiction✨ 🏞️ THE FR
Past Imperfect
From the creator of the Emmy Award-winning Downton Abbey... "Damian Baxter was a friend of mine at Cambridge. We met around the time when I was doing the Season at the end of the Sixties. I introduced him to some of the girls. They took him up, and we ran about together in London for a while...." Nearly forty years later, the narrator hates Damian Baxter and would gladly forget their disastrous last encounter. But if it is pleasant to hear from an old friend, it is more interesting to hear from an old enemy, and so he accepts an invitation from the rich and dying Damian, who begs him to track down the past girlfriend whose anonymous letter claimed he had fathered a child during that ruinous debutante season. The search takes the narrator back to the extraordinary world of swinging London,