Summary
‘They like it if you’re marvellous for your age. If you can’t be that, they want you down Plaistow Crematorium, not hanging about here, taking up bus seats.’
So says Bernie Gibbs, living on her memories on the seventh floor of an East End high-rise. Her diet is mainly chocolate bars and she yearns for action, or at least for the re-opening of the old Imperial Dance Hall, where she used to have good times. One of her ex-husbands, Jimmy Dwyer, turns up from nowhere with a greyhound that…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849163989 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849163987 |
| Author: | Laurie Graham |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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‘A joy to read. It’s funny and passionate and encapsulates an era of wistful innocence’ Maureen Lipman.
‘A joy to read. It’s funny and passionate and encapsulates an era of wistful innocence’ Maureen Lipman. * Maureen Lipman *
About The Author
Laurie Graham
Laurie Graham is a former Daily Telegraph columnist and contributing editor of She magazine. The author of several acclaimed novels, most recently The Grand Duchess of Nowhere and The Night in Question (2015), Laurie lives in Dublin.
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