Ok part 2 guess the book! Or play? Or song?

[Seasawride]

But only fair you say which it is at the beginning

This was a play originally. Is that cheating?

I run a cafe. Everybody comes here. Police, dodgy characters, you name it. Now, my ex, who dumped me without explanation, has turned up. Of all the places in all the world she could have gone, why did she have to come here?

And bonus points for the title of the original play!

Found you :

Ok this is TV

I have a baby and a teenager with SN my husband was diagnosed with cancer and everything has been rather a struggle. Though we have lots of expenses we seem to be doing ok for money, but DH wants to pack in his steady teaching gig to open up a car wash. I find this quite puzzling.

AIBU?

Everybody comes to Rick's!

/Casablanca

Not Just William. Think more furry.

Here is a book which I posted at the end of the last thread. I have vague memories of watching a b&w movie version too:

I have a several amazing talented sons and some ok daughters. My second son is clearly destined to rule Europe. If only he would listen to me and marry sensibly, like his elder brother Josef, a nice middle-class provincial daughter of a wealthy silk merchant who could finance his mad military escapades in search of glory and power and remain faithful and devoted. Instead, the hot-headed fool will chase those penniless aristocrat whores who just escaped the guillotines and now swan around Paris, flashing their nipples at any young passing soldier. What is a hard-working Mother to do?

Dark - breaking bad

Casa Blanca
Everybody comes to rick's

Stark not Dark...

Yes to Breaking Bad

Questions I don't know what yours is but I want to read it. I might repeat a couple I did on last thread that weren't got

I thought 'ello 'ello for the cafe?

Another book which was HUGELY influential for me in my teen years, but I think it might be out of print now?

My widowed DF, an Oxford academic, recently remarried a quite flashy, trousers-wearing woman who is NOT his type at all. However, I quite fancy my step-brother :) All of us are going on a road trip to a deserted house in Northumberland which my DF inherited, WCGW?

OK, we are in Northumberland now. My sister's hand is badly disfigured from a childhood accident involving an electric fire. WIBU to visit a local hermit who lives on an island, completely naked, and ask for him to heal my dear sister's hand?

BTW, I would also be travelling back in time to visit aforementioned hermit.

Mr Stark- my "destined to rule Europe" book is historical fiction- even if you don't recognize the book, you might recognize the people it's about.

It was VERY popular among me and friends, as teenagers.

I think you're Napoleon's mother, Question, but I don't know which book.

Yes! Indeed I am, the Imperial Mother :)

The specific book is "Desiree", by Anne-Marie Selinko, but I don't think it is as popular as it perhaps once was. It completely shaped the way I think about the French revolution and the Napoleonic era.

I think Napoleon as well

Mine were

In my teen years I befriended a girl on holiday. Her life was everything mine wasn't and I envied and hated her.

Flash forward to now, I see her, a harried Mum and know her immediately she does not recognise me at all.

I have the enviable life now

WIBU to ruin hers anyway?

And

My Mum has always hated me and thinks I'm evil. The one time she was ever nice to me was that time I was really ill and she read me Robin Hood.

Well I'll show her

She's going to regret giving me her weird surname

And lastly

My sister in laws sister is very upset with me just because I danced with someone at a society ball

He would never have proposed to her anyway. And now I hear she's had a near breakdown over the embarrassment and gone to Europe to soothe her nerves

I find it all very dramatic

Your first one sounds like 'Her', MrStark.
Second We Need to Talk About Kevin?

No idea on the third!

My Mum has always hated me and thinks I'm evil. The one time she was ever nice to me was that time I was really ill and she read me Robin Hood.

We need to talk about Kevin!

MrStark

My Mum has always hated me and thinks I'm evil. The one time she was ever nice to me was that time I was really ill and she read me Robin Hood

I’m guessing We Need To Talk About Kevin?

X post with PP!

Gosh, we clearly really need to talk about Kevin...

Yes! First is Her and second is Kevin I was amazed no one got it on thread one

One of the most depressing books ever I wanted to smack his mother, very unreliable narrator I thought

Oh we were ALWAYS perfect parents HE WAS JUST A LITTLE SHIT FROM THE SECOND HE DREW BREATH

Mip, no, pp were correct, it's Rick's/Casablanca. 'of all the gin joints places in all the world' identifies it, if you know the film.

One could post from the pov of several of the characters.

(Book)

I'm a rigid American visionary set on bringing the message of good Christian faith to both the people of Africa and my collection of difficult, undisciplined daughters. I'm going to discover that translating the message of Jesus for the African subcontinent more difficult that anticipated, and will ultimately be saved from witnessing the devastating collapse and painful rebuilding of my family due to my descent into malarial insanity.