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Isabel Wolff
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http://www.goodreads.com/Isabel_Wolff
born
The United Kingdom
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female
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M*A*S*H*, Frasier, Just William
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A Vintage Affair
— published 2009 — 31 editions |
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The Very Picture of You
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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Rescuing Rose
— published 2004 — 8 editions |
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Making Minty Malone
— published 1999 — 10 editions |
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Behaving Badly
— published 2003 — 13 editions |
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Trials of Tiffany Trott
— published 1999 — 9 editions |
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Out of the Blue
— published 2012 — 9 editions |
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Forget me not
— published 2007 — 5 editions |
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A Question Of Love
— published 2005 — 6 editions |
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Apaga a Luz e Abraça-me
— published 2007 |
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Ella paints portraits of other people. She spends hours staring at someone’s face, trying to capture not just their looks but a bit of what makes them who they are. She never paints herself though because if she did, the abandonment by her father...
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I love Isabel Wolff, she is one of my favourite Chick Lit authors and there’s only two of her novels I haven’t read. The rest are all wonderful reads, with her last novel A Vintage Affair being a particular favourite. I was extremely pleased to se...
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“What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find myself wondering about their lives. I can never look at a garment... without thinking about the woman who owned it. How old was she? Did she work? Was she married? Was she happy?... I look at these exquisite shoes, and I imagine the woman who owned them rising out of them or kissing someone...I look at a little hat like this, I lift up the veil, and I try to imagine the face beneath it... When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past.”
― Isabel Wolff, A Vintage Affair
― Isabel Wolff, A Vintage Affair
“I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.”
― Isabel Wolff, A Vintage Affair
― Isabel Wolff, A Vintage Affair
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