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Title:

SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH

By:

Sarah Salway

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0747574162

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9780747574163

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Publisher:

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

Pub. date:

1 April, 2005

Pages:

192

Description:

A novel written by a prize-winning short-story writer and poet.

Synopsis:

Verity Bell has very big eyes, alphabetical leanings and a look that says she'd like to get inside your brain somehow. Or so her best friend Sally tells her, confessing that back at their school, most children thought she was a witch. Sally, a fellow only-child to whom Verity has been glued since girlhood, has become a worry in her twenties because she has actually allowed a married man to set her up in a flat to be his mistress. Verity sees no correlation whatsoever between this retrograde and fairly shocking love-nest and her own transforming passion for a married man called John, who surely yearns to leave his wife and three children to be with her. Doesn't he? Verity lives in a world of her own and we glimpse her grudges (from 'ants' to the 'zeitgeist'), her personal development (from 'ambition' to 'wobbling') and her idiosyncratic network of obsessions (pick a letter, any letter) in a narrative arranged alphabetically by topics in the most curious and satisfying way.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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