- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Mandarin; New edition edition (1 Jan 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 074932483X
- ISBN-13: 978-0749324834
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,302,488 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Russell Buffery is a superannuated old actor with a wonderful voice - his most reliable organ where women are concerned. Thrown out by his third wife, he lives in spectacular squalor in Maida Vale. His life changes when he meets a dewy young girl at the chemist's. By the author of "The Stand-in".
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a wonderfully crafted story. Moggach, renowned for her gruesome murder mysteries shows a far lighter side in this delightful story of a girl falling in love with a much older man, and becoming intrigued by and caught up with the characters in his past. Russell Buffery is a well known actor and radio star who has been married not once but several times, and we see him initially on the verge of the end of another marriage. However the emphasis is on the humourous, human, slightly squalid state of his life as he ends his middle years. Chapter by chapter we are shown the lives of his "other women" and children, the reader becoming, as the young woman, acquainted with a series of delightfully funny and poignant families and relationships. I loved this book, and now I don't know what to read next!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I suffered two thirds of this book before giving up after deciding that even if the ending was brilliant the pain of reading the final 1/3 would not be worth it. Neither the older man's attractiveness nor the young girl's love for him were convincing. I found the book boring and unrealistic.
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