Polly Put the Kettle on - Hardcover
Polly Kops is living with her husband, a hero of the alternative society and her twin daughters in a run-down house in the then-seedy area near Portobello Road. Her older, illegitimate son is being reared by her mother. She does not know who her father was. An old lover returns -. In an atmosphere of sex, drugs and rock n roll, secrets are revealed.
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Hilary Bailey is a British writer and editor, born in 1936. She is the author of a biography of Vera Brittain, she edited volumes 7-10 of the 'New Worlds Quarterly' series and among her varied works are 19 books of fiction, including famously Mrs Rochester, the sequel to Jane Eyreand most recently, Fifty- First State (2008). She has just completed her latest book, and is now working on a drama, with Leonora Rose-Aqotu, centred on the life of Caribbean slave, Mary Prince.
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- ISBN 10 0094606501
- ISBN 13 9780094606500
- BindingHardcover
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is sunned, and edges are creased and nicked. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used. Seller Inventory # 543985
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Constable 1975 First Edition First Printing Lower front corner bruised and page edges lightly foxed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a tiny 'nick' at the base of the spine panel ''Polly Kops is redheaded, clever, turbulent and, above all, illegitimate. She lives in stylish squalor in a broken-down Gothic house near Portobello Road. There, too, her heavy-rock songwriter/writer husband, Alexander, their twin daughters, Polly's pregnant cousin, a malevolent old abortionist, a drug addict. rock musicians, groupies and hangers-on.'' Apparently based on her life with Mike Moorcock. Her first book - scarce. Book. Seller Inventory # 107075
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 165 pp. Small stain on rear free endpaper, else a near fine copy. Pictorial d.j. shows sunning along spine, light edgewear, else very good. Seller Inventory # 007689
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. 165 pp Both book and dust jacket are in very good condition. The jacket is a little edge worn and a little faded on the spine. The book is inscribed by the author on the front endpaper "For Jane with lots of love from Hilary". Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 102693
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