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Item Details
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THE LAUGHING ACADEMY
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| By: |
Shena Mackay |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£3.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0349007144 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780349007144 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
5 November, 2015 |
| Edition: |
Digital original |
| Series: |
VMC |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Synopsis: |
The Laughing Academy is as witty, black and compelling as anything Shena Mackay has written. From antiques fayres to Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, geriatric wards to Crystal Palace, this collection offers a journey around the bizarre yet familiar characters and settings that Mackay has made her own. There are Roy and Muriel Rowley, the fun-running charity-junkies who give blood by the gallon (offending their daughter's religious principles); we meet Gerald Creedy who only loves three beings - his twin brother, Harold, and his two tortoises, Percy and Bysshe - and the mysterious lodger Madame Alphonsine who has the strange powers to make things (including tortoises) disappear; and then there is the rather arrogant bestselling novelist who gives a reading at a women's bookshop only to find, to her horror, that two of her old schoolfriends are in the audience. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Virago Press Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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