Isla Dewar was a Scottish novelist and screenwriter, known for her novel Women Talking Dirty, turned into a film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Gina McKee. She wrote seventeen novels.
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Keeping up with Magda
2005
ISBN 9781845058142
Giving Up on Ordinary
1997
ISBN 9780747276944
It Could Happen to You
1998
ISBN 9780747218432
Two Kinds of Wonderful
2000
ISBN 9780747273233
Secrets of a Family Album
2004
ISBN 9780755320141
Getting Out of the House
2005
ISBN 9780755325894
Dancing in a Distant Place
2006
ISBN 9780312349462
Women Talking Dirty
1996
ISBN 9780747215219