Verity Bell has very big eyes, alphabetical leanings and a look that says she'd like to get inside your brain somehow. Or so her best friend Sally tells her, confessing that back at their school, most children thought she was a witch. Sally, a fellow only-child to whom Verity has been glued since girlhood, has become a worry in her twenties because she has actually allowed a married man to set her up in a flat to be his mistress. Verity sees no correlation whatsoever between this retrograde and fairly shocking love-nest and her own transforming passion for a married man called John, who surely yearns to leave his wife and three children to be with her. Doesn't he? Verity lives in a world of her own and we glimpse her grudges (from 'ants' to the 'zeitgeist'), her personal development (from 'ambition' to 'wobbling') and her idiosyncratic network of obsessions (pick a letter, any letter) in a narrative arranged alphabetically by topics in the most curious and satisfying way.
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- Year Published:
- 2005
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780747574163
- Number of Pages:
- 192
- Publication Date:
- 18/04/2005
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Authors:
- Salway, Sarah
- Publication Date:
- 18/04/2005
- Imprint:
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780747574163