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Matilda Poliport, recently widowed, has decided to end it all. It All. But her meticulously planned bid for graceful oblivion is foiled, and when she later foils the suicide attempt of another lost soul - Hugh Warner, on the run from the police - life begins again for both.
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"I loved it for its extraordinary combination of despair and wild black humour" (Julia Blackburn)
"Great verve and inventiveness" (Times Literary Supplement)
"A virtuoso performance of guileful plotting, deft characterisation and malicious wit" (The Times)
"Quriky, sexy and deeply fascinating" (Sheila Hancock)
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"Great verve and inventiveness" (Times Literary Supplement)
"A virtuoso performance of guileful plotting, deft characterisation and malicious wit" (The Times)
"Quriky, sexy and deeply fascinating" (Sheila Hancock)
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- PublisherBlack Swan
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0552990825
- ISBN 13 9780552990820
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages209
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