Sisters Franny and Suzy Schwartz--having spent their childhood striving and competing for scarce parental affection--continue to be motivated by an unquenched thirst for security in their adulthoods
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Review:
Outright rapture (Clive James)
Lucy Ellmann does write a lovely novel ... an enchanting, enchanted book (Fay Weldon)
A triumph ... there isn't a sentimental evasion or a dull bit of writing in the book ... it is painful to read but also exhilarating ... Lucy Ellmann is an original (Guardian)
A wild book, in which angst-ridden confessions are interrupted by excerpts from cook books, authoritarian healthy-eating guides, pretentious theses on modern art, officious radio sex-advice shows, diaries, suicide notes, and pauses for American ice-cream and Rich Tea biscuits. Even the index breaks the rules ... Thanks to its spirited author (the story) is funny in spite of itself - and refreshingly unguarded (Observer)
Book Description:
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0670827118
- ISBN 13 9780670827114
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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