Hey Yeah Right Get a LifeJonathan Cape, 2000 - 178 страница "A string of linked stories about millennial women at work, at home and on holiday. These ten stories display a multiplicity of London life glimpsed from buses, trains and the occasional taxi, with the Thames as a diamond-dusted ribbon seen from an aeroplane coming into Heathrow; also from behind buggyloads of babies, and from suburban back gardens with their barbecues and dawn revelations. There are wine-fuelled confidences between two teachers in a Polish cafe in South Kensington, waves of grief and rudeness during a performance of Orphee at Covent Garden, and a dreadful anniversary dinner for a timber merchant and his wife somewhere in south London. There is a corporate Burns Night in a Mayfair hotel where poetry and money collide catastrophically, and an enormous air disaster which starts by destroying the glasshouses at Kew and ends by obliterating the placid domestic streets for miles around. One woman passes on the secret of wurstigkeit to another in a shopping trip of unbridled sensuousness in the heart of Spitalfields. Seventeen-year-old Jade Beaumont walks towards the jewelled narrative of her future, fiercely resolved not to be like her mother Nicola, who has a succes |
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... talk of the lassies . Big Dougal was down from Edinburgh for the occasion , she'd noted , encircled by a servile coterie of younger men . She had been standing near enough to hear fragments of the incredibly circumlocutory anecdote with ...
... talk of the lassies . Big Dougal was down from Edinburgh for the occasion , she'd noted , encircled by a servile coterie of younger men . She had been standing near enough to hear fragments of the incredibly circumlocutory anecdote with ...
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... talk to anyone beyond Iain Buchanan on her left and this other man on her right . Iain's wife Susan , directly opposite , was giving Charlie the sparrow's bright look askance , while he smiled falsely back . Susan was smart and chirpy ...
... talk to anyone beyond Iain Buchanan on her left and this other man on her right . Iain's wife Susan , directly opposite , was giving Charlie the sparrow's bright look askance , while he smiled falsely back . Susan was smart and chirpy ...
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... talk went at this kind of mixed do with spouses . The men would address the women beside them with bored chivalry , feeding them brief obvious questions about their children or their house or their little part - time jobs and then the ...
... talk went at this kind of mixed do with spouses . The men would address the women beside them with bored chivalry , feeding them brief obvious questions about their children or their house or their little part - time jobs and then the ...
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