The Independent - London, May 14th, 1995
EVERY so often one stumbles across the work of an unknown writer which really deserves those worn out blurb-writer's epithets, "fresh" and "individual":
"Emily's husband Paolo, who's an Italian psychiatrist, wants a divorce because he is sick of Emily's old boyfriend, Ben, coming round all the time. Even on their wedding night Ben was with them till 3am drinking vodka and eating peas. Paolo is also tired of the flat being full of the objects that Emily uses for her acts. Last week she had two horse tails from an abattoir in the bathroom."
This paragraph is typical of this salt little book ab...
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