Performing Pippin Pearmain 5
Performing Pippin Pearmain 5

Author: Lark Westerly

Publisher: eXtasy Books

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Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1487437161

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Fresh from her magical holiday at the fossmere and her first screen test in over a decade, Pippin Pearmain travels from Sydney to Delphinium Island to attend a dance festival and to appear in an indie film. From her arrival at the festival it’s all go, dancing to new tunes, meeting the other performers, and taking a chance to have her ballet, Delphine, workshopped with a real dance troupe. Filming the first scenes of Half-Life of the Lost is another challenge, as Pip has to perform unscripted. While indulging in a bit of peace in a supposedly empty barn, Pip unexpectedly encounters someone she knew many years ago. Their connection dates from their shared love of the book Grandmother’s Sunshine, the mysterious family treasure that even the knowledgeable Jonquil from The Orange Grove bookshop believes does not exist. Pip has a new dilemma. Is a treasure shared a treasure diminished?

Performing Pippin Pearmain 4
Performing Pippin Pearmain 4

Author: Lark Westerly

Publisher: eXtasy Books

Published:

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1487437145

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Pippin Pearmain leaves her beloved Lemonwood Cottage in the care of the cats and Cousin Clarkia while she flies to Sydney for her first screen test in decades. A new role, a new agent and a new challenge await, but Pip is sixty-six and she’s not sure a comeback is what she wants. Behind her lies a comfortable but eccentric life of performing in offbeat roles, and a decade of living alone. She’s short of family and friends, but she has the surprisingly conversational cats, the cottage, and her memories. She has her bucket list and plans for an interesting personal project involving an album and decoupage. Is that enough? Or should she jump feet-first into her new role and see where a comeback takes her? Pip’s few days in Sydney teem with new possibilities, none of which involve decoupage. Mind you, she’ll get to that sometime, once she’s sorted out two ballets, a film, and a festival.

Performing Pippin Pearmain 2
Performing Pippin Pearmain 2

Author: Lark Westerly

Publisher: eXtasy Books

Published:

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1487437056

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Pip hasn’t worked in a decade when her new agent calls unexpectedly. A movie role is on offer, and Magda Quest Saxer wants an answer in less than a week. She gives Pip an implied ultimatum. Take it and fly to Sydney for a screen test. Turn it down it and never work again. With no one else to advise her, Pip consults the cats. Kittisack and Amberjill are probably real. Lupin’s cat is made of pottery. All of them think she ought to take the role. This disruption is bad enough, but Cousin Lupin’s legacy is confusing. Pip risks a call to ask what it’s all about, and within the hour she’s off on a magical mystery tour on a yacht crewed by people she doesn’t know. It’s bewildering stuff, especially when one of the crew goes missing and the other two don’t seem to care. Pip cares but dialling triple zero has its complications when someone nearby can make the phone jump right out of her hand.

Performing Pippin Pearmain 3
Performing Pippin Pearmain 3

Author: Lark Westerly

Publisher: eXtasy Books

Published:

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1487437129

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Pippin Pearmain has a screen test—the first in several years. Before flying to Sydney to meet her new agent, the director, and the rest of the cast of Half-Life of the Lost, she cashes in the mystery holiday voucher that was a gift from her recently deceased Cousin Lupin. Sailing on the yacht Tulpenmanie was fun…until one of the crewmen went missing. That was bad, but now he’s turned up and jumped into the sea with Pip in his arms. Well…she did agree to meet his family! Skinny dipping under a waterfall, swimming into a cave, dancing on the chalk and meeting an extended family takes Pip’s mind off the impending return to film work, but even holidays in fairyland have to end. Pip knows she needs to be back at Lemonwood Cottage in time to take her agent’s call. She has to organise a sitter for the cats who seemed curiously willing to let her go and leave them with a stranger. Pippin Pearmain has led an interesting life, but it had been winding down. Now, at the age of sixty-six, that life has gone utterly nuts. She wouldn’t change that for the world.

Performing Pippin Pearmain 8
Performing Pippin Pearmain 8

Author: Lark Westerly

Publisher: eXtasy Books

Published:

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1487437226

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Pippin Pearmain has traded her placid existence in Lemonwood Cottage for a flurry of activity. There’s a ballet to demonstrate, and a crowded visit to Sydney where she makes an agreement with a man who can turn into a dog. She facilitates a proposal and fossicks on the beach for a special gift for her oldest friend. Her newest friend is on the horizon, and a book from the past will soon be making a comeback. The decade-long lull in Pip’s life ended when she reconnected with her cousins, only to lose Cousin Lupin all over again. Since then, Lupin’s legacy continues to bring forth wonders. Her lack of family still troubles her, but now there is a way to leave a legacy for the future anyway. A return to Delphinium Island brings reunions all over again. Mysteries abound, and some of them will slowly unwind to reveal a story that’s been generations in the making. Pip learns that not every question has a clear answer for now. Maybe that’s a good thing. As Pip herself says, everyone should have some magic and mystery in their lives.

Performing Pippin Pearmain 9
Performing Pippin Pearmain 9

Author: Lark Westerly

Publisher: eXtasy Books

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Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1487439180

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Pippin Pearmain is having the time of her life. After ten years of solitary peace interrupted only by cats and recalcitrant lemons, it’s all systems go for Pip. Her first film role in a decade is about to premiere, and she’s expecting a new companion and the launch of a family treasure. The next festival, Tales in Tune, is underway, and Pip’s dancing troupe, the newly named Pippinalia, expects her to pull something special out of her hat. So—no filming this time, but no leisure time either! Her old friend Tamzin’s suggestion that the festival is a good venue for launching the newly reprinted book Grandmother’s Sunshine has metamorphosed into a giant day-long affair with multiple titles by multiple authors. With ten minutes to make an impression and a veil of playful secrecy, authors and their minions are creeping around in corners, rehearsing their pitches. Pip and her cousins are no exception, but luckily they have Dirk, the Hot Unicorn, in their corner. Grandmother’s Sunshine is to be released, but that’s not all. There’s the new ballet, Caprice, an inexplicable midnight visit from the original cat, a silver pin…and Pip’s understanding of her reality is tossed up like a salad. When the dust settles, everything is changed—except for Pippin Picotee Pearmain. She’s still going strong, and she’s sure she’s better than ever!

Performing Pippin Pearmain 1
Performing Pippin Pearmain 1

Author: Lark Westerly

Publisher: eXtasy Books

Published:

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1487436815

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Eccentricity is Pippin Pearmain’s lifelong stock-in-trade. She used to be a niche-market performer, but at sixty-six, she hasn’t worked in a decade. That doesn’t matter to Pip. She has her cosy life at Lemonwood Cottage, an interesting friendship with Mister Clancy next door, walks on the beach and occasional stoushes with the officious and the annoying. She enjoys her regular ballet practice, and her daily battle with the bad-tempered lemon tree in the garden. Pip has two cat companions, and if they choose to communicate with her in Cat-Morse about things no cat should be concerned with, well—no one else needs to know. Above all, she has her green-penned bucket list. That is unique. An impulsive trip to her old hometown stirs memories for Pip when she meets her cousins Juniper and Lupin at the Delmsford Flower Show. Over a nostalgic afternoon tea provided by the Lilac Ladies in their retro-pinnies, Pip shares a long-held secret with her cousins and is given their secrets in return. Jan’s secret is fun. Lupin’s secret will be turning Pip’s life upside down…but not quite yet. First, she has to negotiate the flower show… shuffle her place in the family pack and accept the unexpected gift of Lupin’s cat.

Performing Pippin Pearmain 6
Performing Pippin Pearmain 6

Author: Lark Westerly

Publisher: eXtasy Books

Published: 2023-04-07

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1487437188

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Pippin Pearmain is filming a part in an indie film while also attending a music festival and working on her ballet, Delphine. Mysteries surround her, but she hasn’t much time to sort them out. She has the offer of a puppy, a reunion with an old friend, a new agent to deal with, and a new plan for a family heirloom. With all this going on, she still has to consider her dwindling family, her very strange cats, and what, if anything, is going to change in her future. A few weeks ago, her cottage, the cats, and her bucket list were enough. Now she’s making a comeback but where will it take her? She can go home to her reclusive existence, but there’s so much more to life than wrestling with cranky lemon trees. Pip thinks she might be up to it, but what if she’s wrong? Yet…not so long ago she went overboard from the yacht Tulpenmanie. She survived the Experience and thrived in the aftermath, so maybe the challenges ahead will be navigable after all.

Performing Pippin Pearmain 7
Performing Pippin Pearmain 7

Author: Lark Westerly

Publisher: eXtasy Books

Published:

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 148743720X

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Pippin Pearmain is enjoying the busiest week of her life. As a child star turned jobbing actor, she’s used to tight deadlines and patient waiting around, but this return to the world of stage and film after ten years of unofficial retirement is a whole new experience. Filming Half-Life of the Lost would be enough for most sixty-something women, but Pip also has to attend the world premiere of her ballet, Delphine, and dance the principal role in her second ballet, Queen of the Clowder. A grey leotard with a stocking tail and Alice-band ears is fine for a costume, but Pip ends up with a glorious silver crown. For someone who doesn’t do jewellery, she seems to be accumulating quite a lot! She has new friendships to cultivate and, as the sunset falls on her most challenging film role ever, she has a strange encounter that’s been fifty years in the making. Back home in quiet Jellico Bay, Pip joins a new friend in a mad expedition to her childhood home to fulfil a promise. Along with her film co-star and two peculiar cats, Pip creeps into the garden under a full moon…

The Neighbors
The Neighbors

Author: J. S. Frankel

Publisher: eXtasy Books

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Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1487437471

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It’s been two years since the Great Incursion, an event that saw the entry of many alien species to our world. Some were friendly, some weren’t. With those that weren’t, wars resulted, leading to millions of deaths. Darby ‘Dar’ Havens, eighteen, moves with his parents, both scientists who work for the government, to Sinley, Idaho, a tiny town. Once there, Dar finds out that his neighbors aren’t from that state—or this galaxy. He meets shape shifters, a mole lady, and Pimevar, a young woman with bat wings and a vampiric appearance. Dar befriends the new arrivals, and he realizes that they’re friendly. He also meets the Uncontrollables who live down the block and don’t mix with anyone. Dar’s relationship with Pimevar develops, but trouble comes in the form of government organizations who think the only good alien is a dead alien. It’s time for Dar to make a choice. If he sides with the government, he’ll live. If he sides with the aliens, chances are he won’t see another sunrise.