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23%OFFIsla Dewar - Giving Up on Ordinary - 9780747255505 - V9780747255505
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Giving Up on Ordinary

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Description for Giving Up on Ordinary Paperback. A poignant and moving novel from a bestselling Scottish author whose writing is deeply evocative and thoughtful Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 210.

When Megs became a cleaner, she didn't realise that if people looked at her a cleaner would be all they saw. Megs has as full a life as the people she does for, Mrs Terribly-Clean-Pearson or Ms Oh-Just-Keep-It-Above-The-Dysentery-Line McGhee. She's the mother of three children and still mourning the death of a son; she enjoys a constant sparring match with her mother; she drinks away her troubles with Lorraine, her friend since Primary One; and she sings the blues in a local club.

Megs has been getting by. But somehow that's not enough any more. It's time Megs gave ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747255505
SKU
V9780747255505
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Isla Dewar
Isla Dewar is the author of many acclaimed novels including Keeping up with Magda, Dancing in a Distant Place, Secrets of a Family Album and Women Talking Dirty. Women Talking Dirty was made into a film starring Eileen Atkins, Helen Bonham Carter, Gina McKee and James Nesbitt. Isla lives in Fife with her cartoonist husband.

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