Authors: Marika Cobbold
âWonderfully funny, with a strong undertow⦠a joy to read'
DEBORAH MOGGACH
âI strongly recommend
The Purveyor of Enchantment'
DAILY MAIL
âCobbold's brilliantly witty and blackly comic writing manages to both point fun at the absurdities of life and, at the same time, to celebrate them'
ELIZABETH BUCHAN
First published in Great Britain by Orion in 1999
This electronic edition published in 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Copyright © Marika Cobbold 1999
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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
eISBN: 978 1 4088 2897 7
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