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'There are two things that you should know about me immediately: the first is that I am beautiful, the second is that yesterday I killed a man. Both things were accidents . ..' When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her neighbour with an Action Man - in a wild bid to prevent him from strangling his wife - she goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in London, she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters. From Professor Willoughby D'Eresby, his perpetually naked wife Letitia, to Dodo, a care-in the-community inhabitant of Cardboard City, they all contrive to change Coventry in ways she could never have foreseen . . .
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Rebuilding Coventry, Sue Townsend
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- Title
- Rebuilding Coventry
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sue Townsend
- Publisher
- Wolters-Noordhoff
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN10
- 9001554938
- ISBN13
- 9789001554934
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Humor, Women, Friendship, Murders, 20th century, British Literature, Great Britain, Comedies, London, Escape, New Beginning, Emancipation, Homelessness
- Rating
- 3.05 out of 5
- Description
- 'There are two things that you should know about me immediately: the first is that I am beautiful, the second is that yesterday I killed a man. Both things were accidents . ..' When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her neighbour with an Action Man - in a wild bid to prevent him from strangling his wife - she goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in London, she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters. From Professor Willoughby D'Eresby, his perpetually naked wife Letitia, to Dodo, a care-in the-community inhabitant of Cardboard City, they all contrive to change Coventry in ways she could never have foreseen . . .