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Cross Purposes

Celia Andrews

Publisher: Spiderwize

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Summary

Life as a journalist/vicar’s wife directly inspired the author’s first three books: Cinderella & the Three Wise Men, Accidents Waiting and Press Ganged. This time, in a series of short stories, the focus moves to the possible secret background dramas of the people she – and probably all her readers – meet or bump into in everyday life.
And this time, the inspiration behind the fiction? The litter and recycling bins outside houses on the day hers are collected: Tuesdays. 
‘Press Ganged: A lively and, one suspects, only lightly
fictionalised account of life as a young newspaper reporter
helps to bring that 60s world into sharp focus.’
Western Daily Press.
Available since: 01/17/2018.

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