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40th fortieth anniversary special edition
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book for female friend teenagers
Brother of the More Famous Jack
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Comfort feel good fluff
comforting classics about single parents
Dancing with Stravinsky
Easy fun reading
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Ex lovers new wife
Finding yourself
Flashbacks multiple perspectives
Frankie Stankie
Hilarious humorous
Juggling
Mother's Day gift
Motherhood novels
Mother’s Day gift
Sentimental Garbage You're Booked podcast
Setting late teens adult
Temples Delight
Travelling Hornplayer
When was young younger
Witty sexy funny
young women girls
Product details
- ISBN 9780747599616
- Weight: 202g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 18 May 2009
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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‘There is no mistaking Trapido's narrative talent: racy, vibrant and witty’ - Guardian
‘Reading it is rather like being bombarded with sequins’ - Observer
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Ali Bobrow is a single parent with a fraught nine-year-old daughter, a malevolent ex with a grabby new wife, and an underused artistic talent. A pushover when it comes to needy neighbours and uninvited children, she allows her house to be the local drop-in centre, until she collides with Noah Glazer.
A solid man of science, Noah walks into Ali's life bringing good sense, order and security. But ten years on, Ali is drawn back into the complexities of her past: an old lover, two ex-spouses, a colleague from clown school and a small smuggled cat all help to rock the boat.
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‘The plot’s interplay of flashbacks and digressions, which prompt bright dialogue and dark complications, recalls Matisse’s line and palette. Some sentences can be relished in isolation, like fine brushwork’ - New Yorker
‘Full of wisecracks, efficiency, carnal delights, and love of children … warm and comic’ - The Times
'Funny, sexy, glowing' - TimeOut
Barbara Trapido is the author of seven novels, including five in the acclaimed and beloved Oxford series. She lives in Oxford.
