I miss you when I blink : Dispatches from a relatively ordinary life /

"Mary Laura Philpott thought she'd cracked the code: Always be right, and you'll always be happy. But once she'd completed her life's to-do list (job, spouse, house, babies--check!), she found that instead of feeling content and successful, she felt anxious. Lost. Stuck in a...

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1. autor: Philpott, Mary Laura (Autor)
Format: Książka
Wydane: Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2019.
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