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Oxford in the 1950s. Sixteen-year-old, Ann has just finished a course in office skills and is looking for work. She is soon hired by Morris Motors in the Motoring magazine office, at the Nuffield Press, Cowley. There she meets Rita and Barbara and we follow the daily routine of life for these three young women. Ann works for personable, but unpleasant, Paul Parrot. As time passes, her dislike for him grows. She joins Rita's dramatic society. Then Ann meets Gerald, and becomes besotted by him. Ann s widowed father brings home a prospective new mother, who is only eight years her senior. Devastated, Ann lets Gerald make love to her. She is then ditched by him. Later, she discovers she is expecting his child. Ann, Rita and Barbara all have problems that the reader can relate to. We follow their progress as they each meet potential partners and fall in and out of love. Domestic relations are also strained as in real life.
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Charlie Marx, like many of us, enjoys a good moan from time to time. This particular series of moans and groans resulted in a two and a half week period of him writing this novel until he got it all out of his system. The result is this collection of hilarious views on life, the universe and charity shop charges. Helped by some characters in his head we travel into the mind of this disturbed individual and see the world as it just might be. Along with famous, and infamous, people in situations you will certainly not have imagined them in before, you will find characters like an educationally-deprived scarecrow, an ambitious but ultimately disappointed 5 note and a series of improbable and improper pensioners. Within this novel you will find out God s real name, what the difference is between a hill and a mountain, as well as why Charlie went all the way to Turkey to end up in Amsterdam."
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On the face of it things appeared normal at Mercy Farm. There they behaved like any other group of mortals would. They plotted, schemed, stole, bartered, cheated, lied, fought and even attempted murder to try and gain power over each other. But only one gets the accolade - takes the Big Prize. What for? Watch big lionlike Frankie and skinny mouselike Jonnie as they try to upstage Trixie and murder her best friend. And marvel at the antics and behaviour of the others, as they struggle for survival A social historical fiction set in England in the 1940s to 1990s against the social, political, economic and moral era of the time. Packed with action, suspense, thrills, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, watch them as they struggle to survive