Tag: The Dud Avocado

• The Dud Avocado

  I had high hopes of The Dud Avocado, by Elaine Dundy, which I bought because it is a Virago Modern Classic, and because the blurb on the back made it sound so enticing: Sally Jay Gorce, is a woman with a mission. It’s the 1950s, she’s young, she’s in Paris, she’s dyed her hair pink,…

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  March 4, 2015

  Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado, Virago Modern Classic

• There Will Be No New Books….

  I am the first to admit that volunteering in an Oxfam Book Shop is not necessarily the best of activities for someone who has resolved that there will be No New Books. But the other volunteers are so nice, and our customers are unbelievably lovely… And, of course, there are the books. I’m like a…

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  January 30, 2015

  A Game of Hide and Seek, Black Narcissus, Chaucer, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Oxfam, The Dud Avocado