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Bob's life is in crisis. His social worker mistress is betraying him and one of his clients is on the rampage in this story of two loners, linked by need and duty, and the explosive situation which they face together. By the author of "The Comforts of Madness" (Whitbread Book of the Year, 1989).
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This novel deals with a crisis in the life of etnernally forgiving Bob, the social worker whose mistress, Angela, is betraying him and one of whose clients, Billy Duff, is on the rampage. The author also wrote "The Comforts of Madness", which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1989.
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