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Kinnaird Buildings, a tenement block in Waterloo, was once quality. Now ancient and blackened, it houses a fringe community of the feckless, the light-fingered, the addicted, who ignore the thuds and screams, and try to patch something together out of the rags and tatters of their lives.
At the centre are Judy, resting from emotional entanglements with men, attempting to resist romantic, wayward Jimmy Raffo; and Loretta, fighting poverty and the brutality of her surroundings.
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Tough and tender ... an excellent first novel (VICTORIA GLENDINNING)
Birch's vignettes of unpretentious social realism are sharp, credible and poignant (SUNDAY TIMES)
Birch has a deadly ear for the sudden, impotent rage ... It's almost poetry, this tale of today's undeserving poor (GUARDIAN)
Believable and affecting (OBSERVER)
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Birch's vignettes of unpretentious social realism are sharp, credible and poignant (SUNDAY TIMES)
Birch has a deadly ear for the sudden, impotent rage ... It's almost poetry, this tale of today's undeserving poor (GUARDIAN)
Believable and affecting (OBSERVER)
* A reissue of Carol Birch's lively, compassionate first novel: winner of the 1988 David Higham Award - a hard-edged and often very funny story of love, death and survival.
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- PublisherMacmillan
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0333460340
- ISBN 13 9780333460344
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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Life in the Palace
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Macmillan & Co Ltd, London
(1988)
ISBN 10: 0333460340
ISBN 13: 9780333460344
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. 248pp. G+/G+. Blue coloured paper wraps with black lettering. Crease to top right hand corner of front cover. Tear to hinge of spine at tail and crease to paper cover of spine. Separate dust jacket in good condition with small tears at top and tail of spine and creasing. General edgewear. Found in the book is an Advance Notice detail sheet and Publicity text from the publishers in advance of the publication of this, Carol Birch's, first novel. Seller Inventory # 001398
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