Done before but it’s fun. So guess the book and the mil

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Help! I have one dd. My mil has lived with us since we have been married.

She is a very strong woman and overruled me on everything. She sends me to bed if I sneeze.

When dd was 2 dh pissed off capturing butterflies in Africa and I havnt heard off him for years. Bastard. So mil got friendly with a wierd lady next door. She has big hair coils round her ears, writes books and has lots of kids.

I am concerned she is also involved in modern slavery as she has a woman living with her called Anna who does everything.

Anyway mil and this wierd Jo woman have colluded to send dd to a boarding school.

Aibu to just want to move away with dd. Start again and have some fun?

Guess the book and keep going.

I've never got through that one either, MipMipMip, but I think it's Moby Dick.

Goes for lie down in darkened room

Ah. Planets, TokenBrit?

Nope, there before the planets.

I said it was niche, well it’s not that niche really but it helps if you were a nerdy introvert teenager in the 90s with a penchant for graphic novels.

Jurassic Park, Gaspode?

How could I have recommended him for this assignment? He was so full of promise, and the ivory trade is $$$. Now he just sulks and pouts about the jungle....

Good thought, 5leaf, but I had Frankenstein in mind.

Token, is it days of the week?

echt, Heart of Darkness?

The Only Living - The Remains of the Day?

My DS is remarkable and is so powerful that he can literally create beautiful worlds by just opening his mouth and singing. Despite this, he insists on running around with a bunch of grubby small weak creatures he calls "humans". He fetishizes them so much- to the extent he literally died for them, and he lets the females of the species ride him and grip his beautiful golden mane with their gross clammy fingers. Or he's rolling around on the grass with them. Disgusting behaviour! When oh when will he find a lioness suitable of his remarkable powers and let go of these pathetic hairless creatures?? And give me some adorable baby lion cub grandkids?

Chronicles of narnia

I had a rather exciting war that I would now like to put behind me. I have got a job as a teacher and really want to do my best for the children. I have made a new male friend who is also on the staff. We like a lot of the same things and share political beliefs and I'd like to take it further but he doesn't seem to fancy me. Am I barking up the wrong tree?

Yes Lance

I had a flighty friend I was massively in awe of who made a great impression on me and then vanished.

I ended up marrying her brother so now I suppose she's my SIL even though she's missing

In hindsight I realise she was a narcissistic user who saw me and others as disposable and I'm glad she's gone.

Only she's just rung me, and she wants to see MY DD. Should I tell DH ?

@MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood

Is this The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly?

MrStark- I know the "everybody thinks I drowned in a lake but I was in London with my lover" book- my DD and I read it summer of 2016 on holiday! But can't remember the name arghghghg it's worse than when you know the tune of a song!!

I remember my DD was so angry with ME after reading that book!

Do you want me to tell you question or do you want to guess?

Yes to the Poison Tree

Just tell me and put me out of my misery- I can even see the stupid book cover!!

My DS has a completely respectable, well-paying job running a high-end crematorium for wealthy Americans. Nothing creepy about him at all. Nevertheless, the two-timing hussy he has fallen for insists on giving him the runaround and I believe has taken up recently with young English lad who pretends to be a poet. Ugh, getting burned up in the crematorium furnace is too good for her.

The Loved One!

Isn't that a great book? I have such a soft spot for Evelyn Waugh.

OK this is the last one and then I HAVE to do some work:

My DS is a sensitive artist who needs to focus on his art, nevertheless those highly-sexed posh schoolgirls that he has to teach art to earn a living insist on seducing him and sleeping with him at the drop of a hat. Gah they canNOT keep their clothes on, those girls. As for that snob school mistress and her blether about "creme de la creme", drowning in the Lothian is too good for her.

question - I think that's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie? I did that earlier from another point of view! (Though not sure what you mean by drowning in the Lothian? Lothian is a region - or more precisely, two regions).

I also took a break from this but despite promises to self, am inexplicably back on the thread ... it's addictive!

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

I have been on this game nearly all day in between sewing buttons on a cardigan and unpicking a skirt to re-make. I really must shift myself too,

I was at school with a boy who was always on the edge of things, rather a figure of fun. That was my perception of him, anyway. I was surprised when meeting him later to find out that he (and his mother) saw things very differently. Maybe he was right, because he did pretty well for himself in life - in work terms, anyway. His marriage, to the niece of another old schoolfriend, was less successful. I now find out that he has been drawn into a cult where I suspect he is being abused. Should I alert the authorities?

Ahhh sorry about that- I thought it was the river in Edinburgh. I read it many, many years ago, but it kinda stuck with me.

Edinburgh stands on the Firth of Forth. Firth is a Scots word for estuary. Glasgow is on the Firth of Clyde, or just upstream from it.