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Wild by Jay Griffiths
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A PAGE TURNER
When I was younger I used to read all the time and then as life gets busy somewhere along the way I stopped reading or when I did get a book I would…
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Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction by Alison MacLeod

Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction

In Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction you will meet lovers, would-be lovers and lovers gone wrong. You will discover modern life laid bare and the literature of the past re-imagined. You will travel from the Brighton seafront to the Nova Scotia coast. You will be in Ikea one minute and in the Hayward Gallery the next…
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Each one of Alison MacLeod's stories is a fresh revelation - surprising, delightful, sexy, moving and funny, and through the whole collection runs a seam of moments and images that linger long in the memory. Fifteen modern tales of attraction is one of those very rare books that while distracting you with a hand on your knee, whispers breathtaking secrets into your ear.

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