Prowse wins 2015 Sainsbury's ebook of the year

A Mother’s Story, the “gripping and heart-wrenching novel” from Amanda Prowse about a young mother struggling to cope with postnatal depression, has won Sainsbury’s Entertainment on Demand’s ebook of the year. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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