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Judy Astley (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Black Swan; paperback / softback edition (6 April 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0552995657
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552995658
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.4 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 248,904 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The setting up of a Neighbourhood Watch scheme causes unexpected problems.

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The residents of the Close were much concerned with crime - preventing it, that is. With all those out-of-work teenagers on the nearby council estate hanging around, stealing, joy-riding and goodness knows what else, it was just as well that Paul Mathieson was setting up a Neighbourhood Watch scheme.

Not that the inhabitants of the Close did not have their own little activities, of course, but these were hardly the same thing. If Jenny and Alan's daughter was caught travelling on the underground without a ticket, and their son was doing a little experimenting with certain substances, and Laura didn't see the need to declare her earnings from hiring out her house to a film crew, and Jenny drove home only just over the legal limit - well, these were quite different matters, not to be compared with what went on in the Estate. And then there was Jenny's discovery, when she advertised flute lessons, that she could work up quite a nice little earner in a rather unexpected way...

As the leafy London street resounded to the efforts of its citizens to keep crime at bay, Jenny realised that it was her marriage, rather than her property, that needed watching.

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Pleasant Surprise 15 Aug 2001
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Judy Astley's tale of the goings on in a well to do suburban cul-de-sac was easily the funniest book I read on holiday this summer. The characters and the situations that they get into are keenly observed, (you might recognise your friends here) and some of them uncomfortably familiar (your friends might recognise you!). Before reading Pleasant Vices, only Tom Sharpe's books had made me laugh out loud - they both share an hilarious turn of phrase. There is a sense of Sharpe's wicked observation of human character and foibles in Astley's book and even if her characters are not so bizarre as his, they are all the more believable for that. This is the first Judy Astley book that I have read but it certainly won't be the last.
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Funny and pleasant 24 July 2007
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This book was enjoyable. It was a bit short but it was an all round pleasant book. There was some chuckling on my part but I felt on the whole I wasn't entirely gripped by the story. It didnt take long to read though and I would recomend as something light hearted to read.
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Bit boring 25 Sep 2008
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i reached chapter 10 on this book but gave up last night it just kept going on to me so i've started a new book
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