This novel follows Zoe's zigzag progress from childhood to maturity, as she moves from one minor disaster to another. Other work by the author includes "Conversations with Lord Byron on Perversion, 162 years after his Lordship's Death".
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Amanda Prantera was born and brought up in East Anglia. She went to Italy for a brief holiday when she was twenty and has lived there ever since. She is the author of eleven novels, the most recent of which is Capri File.
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'Layered with delicious ambiguities, memorable characters and, most of all, the author's eye for the ironic and unlikely' Daily Telegraph 'These hard-edged stories raise the amusing dinner party anecdote to an art form. They are short, tricky, witty and apposite' Independent 'The entertainment value lies in Prantera's immaculate understatement ... Each episode has a polished ambivalence and a dry observation of the nearness of tragedy and loss' Observer 'Reaching the end of this collection one cannot help being a little disappointed that the pleasure is over so soon' TLS
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0747511136
- ISBN 13 9780747511137
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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