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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780860686729

Price: £5.99

ON SALE: 31st December 1986

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Classic Fiction (pre C 1945)

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Amongst the characters in this collection of short stories are the upright Mrs Allen, who unwittingly provides an alibi for her slackly corseted home help, and Emily, who has written fluent, amusing letters to a distinguished novelist for 10 years but descends into small talk when they meet.

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How skilfully and with what peculiar exhilaration she negotiated the minefield of the human heart
JONATHAN KEATES
Brilliantly amusing
ROSAMOND LEHMANN
An eye as sharply all-seeing as her prose-style is elegant -- even the humdrum becomes astonishing
DAILY TELEGRAPH
A wonderful novelist
JILLY COOPER